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The Legal Principle of Self-Determination

Interdisciplinary Legal, Historical, and Developmental Study

Keywords: Relational Legal Theory of Self-Determination; Law-Development Nexus; Economic & Sustainable Development; Political Economy; Historicity; Micro-Historical Critique of International Law; Internal vs External Self-Determination; Minority Rights; Democratic Theory

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K-PERITIA: Cultural Expertise & Disability Rights

Between International & National Law

K-Peritia is supported by the European Union, the Royal Anthropological Institute, and COST (European Cooperation in Science & Technology)


Keywords: Legal pluralism; Subsidiarity; Legal languages; Comparative law; Cultural expertise; Right-holders; Disability; People of Determination; UNCRPD; Strength vs Deficiency-based Disability; Global north/Global south; Anglophone vs Francophone legal cultures; Universalism; Cultural relativism

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Why has the Rule of Law become so fragile?

Theory-in-Context

Keywords: Thin/Thick Rule of Law; Rule of Man; Positive/Natural justice; State of Exception; Private/Public; Short-term/Long-term; Individual/Collective interest; Russia-Ukraine; EU Rule of Law Crisis; Kashmir; Rule of Machines; Pandemic; Social Contract; Relational Contract; DAO; Spot Contract

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Domestic Justiciability of International Legal instruments

Khan, S. (2021). What if anything is the Relevance of Unincorporated Treaties, International Agreements and Conventions in English Law? Gray’s Inn Student Journal, Volume XIII, 1-11.


Generally, I query inherited canonical divisions (between private & public law, the economic & political, the rational & creative, the secular & spiritual, the neurotypical & neurodivergent, the able-bodied & disabled, and the masculine & feminine). Specifically, in this piece, I contemplate a contractual interpretation of treaties and the blurry divisions between procedural & substantive law. 


Keywords: International legal instruments; English law; Vienna Convention; Treaty as a Contract; Monism vs Dualism; Procedure-Substance; UNCRPD; UNCRC; CEDAW; Justiciability; Parliamentary Supremacy


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Of Soul & Incentive in AI Artworks – Revisiting Copyright

‘Highly Commended’ for Golding Essay Prize (£100) awarded by the Competition Law Association for essay on copyright subsistence in AI-generated artworks. 


Keywords: AI-generated art; AI copyrights; IP; Incentive; Authorship; Ownership; Personality; Sui generis right; Legal fiction; Droit d'auteur; Generative Adversarial Network (GAN); AI art market vs Human art market; Devaluation; Free-riding;  Rembrandt's melancholia; Coleridge's Kubla Khan

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Renewable Energy Law

Full-version available on the ABA online bookstore

Ansar, K. and Khan, S. (2019). Chapter 4D – Financing of Solar Renewable Energy (Vol I, pp. 101-132); Chapter 5 – Global Trends in Renewable Energy (Vol I, pp. 151-174); Chapter 17 – California (Vol I, pp. 829-856); and Chapter 57 – Pakistan (Vol III, pp. 2315-2382). In Ansar, K. (Ed.) Financing Renewable Energy Projects: A Global Analysis and Review of Related Power Purchase Agreements. Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. 

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The Breakdown of Secularism in Post-Colonial India

This Honors Thesis won the ‘James Birdsall Weter Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis’ (2013), Stanford History Department. It is a legal-economic ‘microhistory’ of a riot in India for research done with legal, administrative, and journalistic sources in English, Urdu, and Hindi. Acknowledgements are available here, the full-version will be available upon request or publication.


Keywords: American-style secularism; French-style laïcité; Indian-style syncretic pluralism; language knowledge-worlds; thought-worlds

Redoing Afghan History: Undoing "Nation," Reimagining Space

Khan, S. (2012). Redoing Afghan History: Undoing ‘Nation.’ Stanford Herodotus History Journal, Volume XXII, 45-58.


I do not exclusively privilege the macro-scale of the international & transnational. I always hold space for both global cosmopolitanism (for it is needed) & local particularity (for it is truthful). In fact, one of my earliest academic works was a re-imagining of Afghan history on the basis of French & Persian literature. I unearthed the intersectionality of identities and the female Afghan voice which has been trampled over by both external actors and the Taliban. It was a re-imagining that re-centred Afghan persons (particularly women) as subjects with agency rather than objects acted-upon by the grand masculine colonial players in Afghan history: Greek, Russian, British, and American. 

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The Emergence of Nations in the Middle East

Khan, S. (2011). Comparing the Emergence of Nations and National Projects in the Middle East. Avicenna – The Stanford Journal on Muslim Affairs, 2 (1), 16-19. 

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