Salma Waheedi is a Lecturer on Law and Executive Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World at Harvard Law School. She is a public interest lawyer and international law expert, with extensive experience in litigation and advocacy before international courts, including the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and United Nations mechanisms and treaty bodies. She also serves as Legal Advisor on the Middle East and North Africa at the University Network for Human Rights, a Guardrail Advisor at De|Center, and an affiliated faculty member of the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School. Salma’s work focuses on international accountability, technology, gender, family law reform, refugee rights, and business and human rights. She leads collaborative research and justice advocacy projects, working closely with communities and advocates across the Middle East and North Africa, and advises on questions of human rights and humanitarian law in the contemporary Middle East. At Harvard, she teaches courses on global justice, gender, international law and Israel-Palestine, comparative law of the Middle East, and Islamic law.

Law

Gulf Studies

Islamic Law

Gender/Women's Studies

Human Rights

Arab States

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Arabic (native)

English (native)

French (advanced)

Hebrew (fluent)