Biography
Mira Naseer is a US-qualified lawyer specialising in international human rights, criminal and public international law, with a particular focus on accountability for grave abuses. Educated at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University and the University of Pennsylvania, her work spans universal jurisdiction cases, sanctions and asset recovery, corporate accountability, and gender persecution under international criminal law. She is admitted to the New York Bar.
She has held legal roles at the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians and REDRESS, where she led projects targeting private-sector complicity in international crimes, filed submissions to the ICC, ICJ and UK police, and engaged directly with UN mechanisms and British parliamentarians. Her experience also includes work with the ACLU, Harvard’s human rights and immigration clinics, and CUNY Law’s Institute on Gender, Law, and Transformative Peace on issues ranging from migrant detention to the Taliban’s gender crimes. Alongside consultancy work for a range of human rights organisations and investigative journalism outlets, she has published in leading journals on reparations and sanctions, marking her out as a practitioner-scholar at the intersection of law, investigation and public accountability.