Specialist areas of work and services:
- Armed Conflict & Military
- Child Marriage
- Debt Bondage
- Domestic Servitude
- Forced Criminality
- Forced Labour
- Forced Marriage
- General
- Manufacturing
- Organ Trafficking
- Other
- Prostitution & Sex Slavery
- Sale of Children
Description:
Head and Founder of Diverse Legal Consulting, UK
Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia
Experience, Background and Services:
Dr. Imranali Panjwani is the Head and Founder of Diverse Legal Consulting, a consultancy that specialises in country expert reports on Middle East & North Africa (MENA), East-Africa, India & the Subcontinent, Islam & Muslim Diaspora, Islamic Law & Finance, Human Rights and Education Law (www.diverselegal.com). He holds the position of an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Notre Dame Australia and was previously a Visiting Scholar at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University and the Religious Director of Imam Hasan Centre, Sydney. He has worked as a paralegal and legal adviser for a variety of law firms and companies including Fisher Jones Greenwood where he assisted fee-earners in Immigration & Civil Rights cases and Strutt Import Export Ltd where he advised the company in the area of Commercial Litigation. He has also undertaken mini-pupillages under a variety of barristers in personal injury and family law.
He completed his LLB in Law from the University of Sheffield. Thereafter, he underwent hawza (seminary) training in classical Islamic Studies & Arabic at Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham while concurrently attending the University of Law to study on the Legal Practice Course. He obtained his PhD in Theology & Religious Studies from King's College London focusing on the role of the self in Islamic-Western human rights discourse and was a tutor in Islamic Studies there. He pursued his Persian language studies and post-doctoral research at the Research Institute of Al-Mustafa International University (Jami'at al-Mustafa), Mashhad where he focused on the role of case law as a relevant source of law in Islamic jurisprudence. He resides in the United Kingdom.