Afghan Scholars- Inter-Professional Approaches to Social Justice Advocacy

2022 SALT Teaching Conference

Visiting Professor Negina Khalili will join other Afghan Scholars at the 2022 SALT Teaching Conference in Chicago on October 14, 2022 at 11 a.m. Panelists will discuss the current situation in Afghanistan with a focus on women and girls. 

Speakers include: 

Negina Khalili was an Afghan prosecutor for the  Elimination of Violence against women in the Attorney General's Office of Afghanistan and she was lecturer at Rana University in Afghanistan. She was the first female prosecutor in her province (Ghor). Negina Khalili received her BA from Herat University in 2015 and received an LLM from Ohio Northern University in 2018. Negina Khalili was a civil society and human rights defender in Afghanistan.  She is currently a Visiting Professor at Loyola University New Orleans.

Hasiba Atakpal Khanjari is an Afghan journalist. She started her career as a journalist with Afghan television Shamshad in 2016, where she mainly covered war and peace for audiences in Afghanistan. In 2018, she joined Afghan television network, TOLO News and was one of the few women journalists who reported live on TV after the Taliban took over Kabul in her everyday clothes. After her live report, she received threats from the Taliban and was forced to leave the country. 

Najia Mahmodi was a Chief Prosecutor for the Attorney General's Office of Afghanistan. She is a renowned lawyer focused on gender and the elimination of violence against women.  Najia is an EVAW law expert with over 5 years of experience in the field of prosecution, legal affairs and international law practices in Afghanistan. She earned her law degree from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) and has participated in several legal trainings abroad. Her professional areas of interest include the promotion of womens' rights; good governance and women; gender equality; elimination of violence against women; women, peace and security; legal affairs and women in leadership in Afghanistan; and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

Shamshad Pasarlay is a visiting lecturer of law at the University of Chicago. He is a columnist (2022) for the Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICONnect). Previously, he was a lecturer at Herat University School of Law and Political Science in Afghanistan and a visiting research fellow at the Center for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. He was the founding member of Afghanistan Constitutional Studies Institute. Shamshad Pasarlay teaches and researches in the areas of constitutionalism, law and religion; institutional engineering in divided societies; Islamic law and courts; and Islamic constitutionalism with a focus on Afghanistan.