Behram Khan

Behram Khan is a distinguished legal scholar with a proven track record of academic excellence at the highest levels. He has demonstrated exceptional scholarly performance throughout his academic journey, which spans the University of Warwick, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Oxford. He is an Exhibition and Duke of Edinburgh Scholar at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, of which he is also a member.

Behram’s academic prowess is evidenced by his outstanding marks in both his undergraduate and postgraduate law degrees. As an LLM student at LSE, he was awarded a full scholarship and graduated with an overall distinction in public law. His extensive research covered a wide range of legal subjects, including comparative constitutions, democratic backsliding, terrorism and the rule of law, and refugee law, with a focus on institutions such as the European Court of Human Rights. His dissertation, “Was the Dujail Trial a Fair One?” exemplifies his deep engagement with human rights law.

During his undergraduate studies in law at the University of Warwick, Behram developed a deep interest in various modules, particularly constitutionalism and human rights. His work included a focus on the UK’s Political Constitution and John Griffith’s Theory of 1978, and the Art of Advocacy, where he conducted wide-ranging research on the European Convention on Human Rights and its incorporation into domestic law through the Human Rights Act 1998.

Behram’s multidisciplinary MSc at Oxford, for which he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth House Scholarship and an overall distinction, has equipped him to tackle advanced interdisciplinary issues of high socio-legal importance with sophistication and thoroughness. His studies included modules on international human rights law, politics, philosophy, history, anthropology, and research methodologies. He received the Busuttil Domus Research Prize 2022 for outstanding research work in international law, which included qualitative archival research and analysis. He actively engaged with the Public International Law Discussion Group at the Oxford Law Faculty and completed the Public International Law Course at the BIICL with a scholarship.

Currently, Behram is a Researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Linda Mulcahy. He is a member of the Access to Justice cluster, contributing to the Enhancing Democratic Habits project. This project, in partnership with Queens University Belfast, the British Library, and the Law Centres Network, and funded by the AHRC, involves an oral history of the law centres movement in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Behram manages his own research and administrative activities, digitizes Law Centre Annual Reports, assists with data management and transfer of documents and audio recordings to the British Library, and contributes to wider project planning and research design. He is responsible for gathering, analyzing, and presenting qualitative and quantitative data, contributing to research publications, content summaries, book chapters, and the final project report. Additionally, he represents the research group at external conferences, meetings, and seminars.

Previously, Behram served as the Senior Research Assistant on the Harnessing Global Data Project at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Sandra Fredman and Professor Alan Stein. This multidisciplinary project aimed to build research capability in Early Child Development and Early Child Education (ECD-ECE) and expand the use of data for monitoring, action, and decision-making. Behram led the human rights aspects, liaised with international stakeholders, analyzed secondary data, drafted papers for publication, conducted literature reviews, hosted webinars, and evaluated reports to the UN. He developed a conceptual framework for the research around longitudinal approaches to human rights and ECD-ECE and assisted with research on related issues such as climate change and migration. He also has experience in marking as part of the Oxford Law Faculty.

On 18th July 2023, Behram had the honor of addressing the 16th Session/4th Meeting of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where he highlighted the infringements on the basic rights of the Pashtun people by the Pakistani state, thereby breaching Article 3 of the United Nations Declaration on The Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Prizes:

Exhibition and Duke of Edinburgh Scholarship, Inner Temple, 2024

Queen Elizabeth House Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2022

Ronald and Jane Olson Award Scholarship, University of Oxford, 2022

Jackson-Hendricks Bursary, University of Oxford, 2022

Busuttil Domus Research Prize, University of Oxford, 2022

Public International Law Scholarship, British Institute of International and Comparative, 2022

LSE Master's Award, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2021

Bassi Scholarship, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2021