Iqra Saleem Khan is an adjunct professor at Northeastern Law and an SJD candidate at Harvard Law School. She previously taught at The Institute of Legal Studies in Lahore, Pakistan. Her dissertation explores the role of Family Law Exceptionalism (FLE) in the postcolonial nation-building projects of Bangladesh and Pakistan, and the rise of Blasphemy Law in the latter as a counter-exceptional domain of national identity. Her earlier publications have explored pressing issues in Pakistani family law, including the nature of marital consent, and the rights of existing and subsequent cowives in polygamous marriages. More broadly, her research interests are in the areas of gender and the law, legal theory, and Islamic law. In addition to academia, she has worked with the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to further their mandates through research and advocacy.
