Mr Moeen Cheema

Moeen Cheema is a Teaching Fellow at the ANU’s College of Law, where he is also pursuing a PhD on judicial review in Pakistan and its implications for various theories of Rule of Law. Prior to joining ANU, Moeen was an Assistant Professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore
University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan from 2004 -08, where his research focussed on the country's Criminal and Islamic laws, Administrative Law and Regulation.

His published works include the articles: From the Hudood Ordinances to the Protection of Women Act: Islamic Critiques of the Hudood Laws of Pakistan (UCLA Journal of Near Eastern and Islamic Law, Forthcoming: 2009)(with Abdul Rahman Mustafa); Judicial Patronage of 'Honor Killings' in Pakistan: The Supreme Court's Persistent Adherence to the Doctrine of Grave and Sudden Provocation (Buffalo Human Rights Law Review: 2008); Cases & Controversies: Pregnancy as Proof of Guilt under Pakistan's Hudood Laws (Brooklyn Journal of International Law: 2006); and Gender Discrimination: Exploring Judicial Bias in the Superior Courts of Pakistan in Bashir Ahmad Khan, ed. MANAGING NGOS: GENDER CHALLENGES (Oxford University Press: 2005). 

Mr Cheema's presentation at the Countering Militancy in Pakistan: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions Conference was, Militancy, Orthodoxy & ‘Rule of Law’: Reconstructing the De-Islamization of Pakistan’s Laws.