Overview
As a Research Fellow with Partners in Justice International, Ms. Lasharie conducts in-depth factual and legal research and writing, including analysing relevant political and legal issues across PJI’s program areas, including in the situations and countries where we provide or would consider providing support to local practitioners and survivors of human rights violations seeking accountability for grave crimes in their own countries’ courts.
Biography
Neiha Lasharie is a U.S. based lawyer and a J.D. graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School. While at law school, she was Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin International Law Journal, a human rights instructor at UW-Madison, a student facilitator with the Restorative Justice Project, part of the student bar association, and president of the Wisconsin International Law Society. She received the best comment award for her comment on the Rome Statute’s binary definition of gender.
Her specific research interests include the treatment of gender identity in international criminal law, the colonial origins of the international human trafficking/white slavery regime, and the past and future relationship between Islamic law and international law. Ms. Lasharie is a member of the Human Trafficking Research Network and served as the lead organizer of the HTRN Conference 2022.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in political science and international affairs from Northeastern University, and her Master of Arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. At Fletcher, she received the Leo Gross Law Prize for excellence in law-related courses, participated in the International Law Practicum, and was a content chair for the Decolonizing International Relations Conference.
Ms. Lasharie has lived in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and the Netherlands. She is presently based in Washington, DC.
Education
- University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D. cand., 2024
- Tufts University, The Fletcher School, M.A. Law and Diplomacy, 2021
- Northeastern University, B.A. Political Science and International Affairs, 2018
Languages
- English: fluent
- Urdu: native fluency
- Hindi: spoken fluency
- Spanish: intermediate proficiency
Publications
- Neiha Lasharie, Definitional Problems, Indefinite Solutions: Revisiting the ICC’s Conception of Gender in a Gender-Critical World, Wisconsin International Law Journal vol. 41(1), Winter 2023.
- Neiha Lasharie, Fantastic Futures – International Humanitarian Law and the Generative Potential of Pop Culture, Opinio Juris, October 2021.
- Neiha Lasharie, A case for TWAIL engagement with the International Human Trafficking Regime, Queens University Belfast Human Rights Centre, August 2021.
- Neiha Lasharie, Examining the Islamic Law of War as a Pre-Westphalian International Humanitarian Law, Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, August 2021.
- Neiha Lasharie, We Need to Talk about the ICC’s Trans-Exclusionism, Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, July 2020.