Dr Farrah Raza
I am a Stipendiary Lecturer in Public Law at Pembroke College, University of Oxford since 2017. I tutor Constitutional Law to first years at Pembroke College, where I also participate in the law admissions process. I have also tutored Administrative Law at Pembroke and for other colleges.
In 2020, I was awarded the Minerva Fast Track Fellowship by the Max Planck Society, and led the Research Group on Organ Donation and Transplantation in the UK and Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany.
I hold a PhD from King's College London (KCL), which was fully funded by the Centre of European Law at KCL. I hold a LL.B. from KCL and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. I was previously a Senior Teaching Fellow in Public Law at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, where I delivered the lectures on the Human Rights Act 1998.
My research interests include: Public Law, Human Rights Law, Medical Law & Ethics and Law & Religion.
Monograph
Farrah Raza, Religious Accommodation and its Limits (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023).
Journal Articles
Farrah Raza, Jonathan Herring, James Neuberger, David Jones, Heloise Robinson, Cornelius Engelmann, John Forsythe, Ernest Ryder, Gurch Randhawa, Isabel Quiroga, Thomas Berg, and Douglas Thorburn, ‘Should Conditional Deceased Organ Donation be Permitted? Identifying legal and ethical considerations’(2025) Medical Law International 1-27.
Farrah Raza, ‘The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: The Challenge of Defining Religion’ (2024) 3(2) Supreme Court Law Review.
Farrah Raza and James Neuberger, ‘Consent in Organ Transplantation: putting legal obligations and guidelines into practice’ (2022) BMC Medical Ethics 23:69.
Farrah Raza, ‘Limitations to the Right to Religious Freedom: Rethinking Key Approaches’ (2020) 9 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 435.
Policy Papers
Sandra Fredman, Tom Adams, Farrah Raza, Natasha Holcroft-Emmess, Oskar Sherry, Richard Martin and Meghan Campbell. 2021. Oxford Human Rights Hub Submission to the Independent Review of the Human Rights Act (2021).
Farrah Raza, ‘Working Paper: Accommodating Religious Slaughter in the UK and Germany: competing interests in carving out legal exemptions’ (2018) MPI for Social Anthropology.
Blogs
Farrah Raza, ‘The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Key reports, themes, and issues’ (OxHRH Blog, 6 March 2024) < Farrah Raza, “https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-un-special-rapporteur-on-freedom-of-religion-or-belief-key-reports-themes-and-issues/” [Date of Access].
Farrah Raza, ‘Organ Donation: New Law, New Horizons (OxHRH Blog, 17 December 2017) < Farrah Raza, “Organ Donation: New Law, New Horizons” (OxHRH Blog, 2019) <http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/organ-donation:-new-law,-new-horizons> [Date of Access].
Farrah Raza, ‘The Continuity of the Headscarf Controversy: From Politics to Fashion,’ (OxHRH Blog, 17 December 2017) <http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-continuity-of-the-headscarf-controversy-from-politics-to-fashion>.
2024–2025 - John Fell Fund jointly with Professor Jonathan Herring, Children and Transplantation Medicine
2023–2023 - Faculty Internet Engagement Fund, University of Oxford for a podcast series on the Law and Transplantation Medicine
2023–2024 - OPEN SEED Fund jointly with Professor Jonathan Herring, University of Oxford
2022 - University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
2022 - Award from Law Research Support Fund, Law Faculty, University of Oxford.
2021 - Award from Law Research Support Fund, Law Faculty, University of Oxford.
2020–2023 - Minerva Fellow Award from the Max Planck Society, Germany.
2013–2016 - Fully funded PhD at the Centre of European Law, King’s College London.
Jun. & Dec. 2024 - Organiser and presenter, ‘Workshop on Children and Transplantation Medicine’, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.
Sept. 2024 - Presenter, Complex Choices and Practical Challenges of Consent in Deceased Organ Donation, The Transplantation Society, Istanbul, Turkey.
Dec. 2023 - Organiser and presenter, ‘Workshop on Conditional Organ Donation’, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.
Nov. 2023 - Book Launch at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.
Oct. 2023 - Presented book online for the Canopy Forum Conference, Emory University USA.
Sep. 2023 - Presenter, ‘The Challenge of Defining Religion or Belief’, Symposium: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada.
Dr Farrah Raza
I am a Stipendiary Lecturer in Public Law at Pembroke College, University of Oxford since 2017. I tutor Constitutional Law to first years at Pembroke College, where I also participate in the law admissions process. I have also tutored Administrative Law at Pembroke and for other colleges.
In 2020, I was awarded the Minerva Fast Track Fellowship by the Max Planck Society, and led the Research Group on Organ Donation and Transplantation in the UK and Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany.
I hold a PhD from King's College London (KCL), which was fully funded by the Centre of European Law at KCL. I hold a LL.B. from KCL and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. I was previously a Senior Teaching Fellow in Public Law at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, where I delivered the lectures on the Human Rights Act 1998.
My research interests include: Public Law, Human Rights Law, Medical Law & Ethics and Law & Religion.
Monograph
Farrah Raza, Religious Accommodation and its Limits (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023).
Journal Articles
Farrah Raza, Jonathan Herring, James Neuberger, David Jones, Heloise Robinson, Cornelius Engelmann, John Forsythe, Ernest Ryder, Gurch Randhawa, Isabel Quiroga, Thomas Berg, and Douglas Thorburn, ‘Should Conditional Deceased Organ Donation be Permitted? Identifying legal and ethical considerations’(2025) Medical Law International 1-27.
Farrah Raza, ‘The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: The Challenge of Defining Religion’ (2024) 3(2) Supreme Court Law Review.
Farrah Raza and James Neuberger, ‘Consent in Organ Transplantation: putting legal obligations and guidelines into practice’ (2022) BMC Medical Ethics 23:69.
Farrah Raza, ‘Limitations to the Right to Religious Freedom: Rethinking Key Approaches’ (2020) 9 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 435.
Policy Papers
Sandra Fredman, Tom Adams, Farrah Raza, Natasha Holcroft-Emmess, Oskar Sherry, Richard Martin and Meghan Campbell. 2021. Oxford Human Rights Hub Submission to the Independent Review of the Human Rights Act (2021).
Farrah Raza, ‘Working Paper: Accommodating Religious Slaughter in the UK and Germany: competing interests in carving out legal exemptions’ (2018) MPI for Social Anthropology.
Blogs
Farrah Raza, ‘The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Key reports, themes, and issues’ (OxHRH Blog, 6 March 2024) < Farrah Raza, “https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-un-special-rapporteur-on-freedom-of-religion-or-belief-key-reports-themes-and-issues/” [Date of Access].
Farrah Raza, ‘Organ Donation: New Law, New Horizons (OxHRH Blog, 17 December 2017) < Farrah Raza, “Organ Donation: New Law, New Horizons” (OxHRH Blog, 2019) <http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/organ-donation:-new-law,-new-horizons> [Date of Access].
Farrah Raza, ‘The Continuity of the Headscarf Controversy: From Politics to Fashion,’ (OxHRH Blog, 17 December 2017) <http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-continuity-of-the-headscarf-controversy-from-politics-to-fashion>.
2024–2025 - John Fell Fund jointly with Professor Jonathan Herring, Children and Transplantation Medicine
2023–2023 - Faculty Internet Engagement Fund, University of Oxford for a podcast series on the Law and Transplantation Medicine
2023–2024 - OPEN SEED Fund jointly with Professor Jonathan Herring, University of Oxford
2022 - University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
2022 - Award from Law Research Support Fund, Law Faculty, University of Oxford.
2021 - Award from Law Research Support Fund, Law Faculty, University of Oxford.
2020–2023 - Minerva Fellow Award from the Max Planck Society, Germany.
2013–2016 - Fully funded PhD at the Centre of European Law, King’s College London.
Jun. & Dec. 2024 - Organiser and presenter, ‘Workshop on Children and Transplantation Medicine’, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.
Sept. 2024 - Presenter, Complex Choices and Practical Challenges of Consent in Deceased Organ Donation, The Transplantation Society, Istanbul, Turkey.
Dec. 2023 - Organiser and presenter, ‘Workshop on Conditional Organ Donation’, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.
Nov. 2023 - Book Launch at Pembroke College, Oxford, UK.
Oct. 2023 - Presented book online for the Canopy Forum Conference, Emory University USA.
Sep. 2023 - Presenter, ‘The Challenge of Defining Religion or Belief’, Symposium: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada.