Orubah
Ahmed

Orubah Sattar Ahmed is a Legal Fellow for the Foundation’s TrialWatch Initiative. Prior to CFJ, she was an Adjunct Faculty of Law in Pakistan, provided pro bono legal services to death row inmates with Justice Project Pakistan, and survivors of sexual harassment and assault in Pakistan. She also conducted legal research and drafting for Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project as a Student Attorney and International Human Rights Association (IHRA) as a researcher.

She has clerked at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and is currently the Founder and Co-Editor of the Pakistani Feminist Judgments Project that re-writes pivotal judgments of the Supreme Court from a feminist perspective; the project is currently in its editing stage. She has published, spoken on, moderated and conducted trainings of lawyers on gender issues.

She is a graduate of Harvard Law School (LL.M.; Islamic Law Writing Prize Recipient), University of Pennsylvania (LL.M.; Award of Distinction; Human Rights Scholar, LLM Public Interest Fellow), and Lahore University of Management Sciences (BA-LLB; Award of Distinction).

She is fluent in Urdu, English, Punjabi and has speaking proficiency in Hindi.