Dr. Zia Ullah Ranjah

Short vita

Dr. Zia Ullah Ranjah is an Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan. He holds a doctorate in law. He has published in prestigious law journals such as the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Brill, Journal for Law and Islam, Germany, and Encyclopedia of Asian Law, Edward Elgar, UK. He writes on legal issues in newspapers including The Friday Times, DAWN, and The News.

He has more than two decades of experience in the legal profession. He has advised in legal matters to many banks, institutions, companies and appeared in hundreds of cases before district courts, regulatory bodies,  and the superior courts of Pakistan in constitutional, civil, criminal, election, service and banking cases. He has delivered lectures on law at National Defense University, National Police Academy, Foreign Service Academy (Islamabad) and Civil Services Academy, Punjab Judicial Academy, and Punjab University Law College (Lahore). He was invited as a Visiting Scholar at SOAS, University of London for research on constitutional law. He has attended courses at the Hague Academy of International Law (Netherlands), International Academy of Leadership (Germany) and the International Institute for Human Rights (France). He has worked as a consultant in a Legal and Judicial Reforms Project in Pakistan funded by the Asian Development Bank. He has been advising on national and international law matters in inter-ministerial work as well.