Angbeen Mirza

Angbeen Mirza

Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law

Assistant Professor of Practice

Angbeen Atif Mirza is a practising lawyer and researcher. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, LUMS. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Digital Rights Foundation. She holds a B.A., LL.B from LUMS (2008), and an LL.M from the University of Michigan Law School (2010). She has 8 years of litigation experience in Karachi and Lahore. She joined the Legal Aid Office as part of its juvenile litigation team in 2010. She also helped developed material for and organize gender sensitization trainings for judicial officers, police and prison staff. She has since moved to Lahore and has been involved in work at the Legal Aid Office and Legal Aid Society as a consultant. She has been involved in human rights work in various capacities including public interest litigation, research, advocacy, development of training material for judges and police staff, and preparation of community outreach material relating to constitutional, women’s, minorities and children’s rights. She worked with the Directorate of Reclamation and Probation, Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa to draft its Annual Report for the year 2013 – 2014. Angbeen’s primary area of interest currently lies in clinical legal education, specifically street law and access to justice work. She supervises a street law programme at SAHSOL where students are responsible for weekly legal awareness sessions with secondary school students.