Farrah Ahmed

Dr Farrah Ahmed is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School. Before this, she was a Lecturer in Law at the Queen's College, University of Oxford.

Farrah’s research spans family law, public law and legal theory. She has worked on personal status family law, religious tribunals, constitutional statutes, constitutiinal conventions, religious freedom, the doctrine of legitimate expectations, the duty to give reasons and social rights adjudication has been published in the Cambridge Law Journal, the Child and Family Law Quarterly, the Internation Journal of Constitutional Law, the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, the Modern Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Public Law . Her book Religious Freedom under the Personal Law System was published by Oxford University Press in 2016. Farrah is currently a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery grant studying religious dispute resolution processes. She is a founding editor of the Indian Law Review and the Admin Law Blog. She also serves as Associate Director (India) of the Asian Law Centre, Melbourne Law School.