Muhammad Umar Ali is a Visiting Assistant Professor (full-time) at SAHSOL. His research interests include labour law, working-class and social movements, development, and state formation in the 'third world'. Mr. Ali completed his LL.M. (magna cum laude) in International Law and Justice from Fordham University School of Law, which he attended as a Fulbright and Graduate Student Scholar, and his LL.B. (Honours) from SOAS, University of London, where he was elected President of both the SOAS Debating Society and the SOAS Law Society and served as a Managing Editor on the SOAS Law Journal.
Before joining LUMS, Mr. Ali taught at various law schools and worked as a lawyer in Lahore, where his practice encompassed both domestic and international disputes as well as advisory work for a diverse range of clients. Mr. Ali has also served as a Judicial Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a Judicial Extern at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mr. Ali’s latest research projects concern labour conditions of sanitation workers in Lahore, the movement against bonded labour in Punjab, development of Pakistani industrial relations laws and related labour struggles, and left historiography and people's struggles in Pakistan. His recent and current courses at SAHSOL include Advocacy, Civil Procedure, Legal Practice, Law, Social Change and Resistance, and Labour Law. In addition to his academic work, Umar continues to be involved in workers' and peasants' movements, as well as cultural work in people’s theatre and literature.
Find his research work here: https://lums.academia.edu/MuhammadUmarAli