Professor Farrah Ahmed

Overview

Farrah Ahmed is a Professor at Melbourne Law School. Her research spans legal theory, constitutional law, administrative law and family law.

Her work including on judicial review, citizenship, secularism, religious freedom and social rights, has been published in the Modern Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Cambridge Law Journal and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. Her book Religious Freedom under the Personal Law System was published by Oxford University Press.

Farrah is a co-founding General Editor of the Indian Law Review. She has served as Associate Dean for Research at Melbourne Law School. She also serves as Associate Director (India) of the Asian Law Centre.

Farrah was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton University (2022-23). She has held visiting appointments at the National University of Singapore, the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of Oxford and the University of Toronto.

Since 2019, Farrah has served on an Advisory Committee of the Australian Law Reform Commission and has served as the Attorney-General's nominee to select tribunal members. She works collaboratively with a range of public interest practitioners and organisations.

Before joining Melbourne Law School in 2012, Farrah was a Lecturer in law at the Queen's College, University of Oxford. Her educational history includes an LLB from the University of Delhi, and a Bachelor of Civil Law, an MPhil in law and DPhil in law from the University of Oxford.