Zohra Ahmed joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2021 as an assistant professor teaching Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, and a seminar titled Crime and Punishment.
Ahmed graduated from Cornell Law School, where she had been a clinical teaching fellow in its Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide since 2018. She co-taught and co-supervised law students in the school's International Human Rights Clinic. She and her students represented individuals on death row in Tanzania and the United States and collaborated with groups in both countries challenging life and death sentences. She also oversaw United Nations advocacy on behalf of the only human rights organization in the Occupied Syrian Golan. Additionally, Ahmed developed a seminar called Struggles for Liberation and Equality: Human Rights in the 21st Century. In 2020, she received the Anne Lukingbeal Award for Service to Women Students.
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