Farrah Raza

Farrah Raza is a Stipendiary Lecturer in Public Law at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD from King's College London (KCL), which was fully funded by the Centre of European Law at KCL. She holds a LL.B. from KCL (first class honours) and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. Farrah has nine years of teaching experience. She tutors Constitutional Law and Administrative Law at Pembroke College where she also participated in the law admissions process. She was previously a Senior Teaching Fellow in Public Law at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, where she delivered the lectures on the Human Rights Act 1998. Farrah also taught on the Public Law and Anti-Discrimination Law courses at KCL.

Farrah was awarded the Minerva Fast Track Fellowship in January 2020. She leads the Minerva Research Group entitled The Ethics of Exchange: the Regulation of Organ Donation and Transplantation at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department of Law and Anthropology, in Halle (Saale), Germany, since September 2020.

Publications 

Monograph: Religious Accommodation and its Limits (Hart Publishing, April 2023)

On what grounds should religious accommodation claims be limited? When do religious claims harm the autonomy of others?

This book proposes an original model of religious accommodation which can be applied in secular liberal democracies where religious diversity has been a hotly contested issue. Addressing the complex question of limitations to the right to Freedom of Religion or Belief and how thse limitations might be determined, it examines how religious claims can harm the autonomy of others and emphasises the need for an appropriate balancing of competing interests. Drawing on a range of case study examples from jurisdictions including the US, Canada, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Union’s Court of Justice, the UK, Germany and France, this is a timely contribution to the debate on how a legal duty or policy approach in favour of religious accommodation can be applied in practice. Moreover, the proposed model offers criteria that may be used to guide the implementation of equality and diversity policies in contexts such as employment and education. The book will be of interest to academics, legal practitioners and policy-makers in the field.

Journal Articles

Raza, Farrah and James Neuberger. 2022. Consent in organ transplantation: putting legal obligations and guidelines into practice. BMC Medical Ethics 23: 69. DOI: 10.1186/s12910-022-00791-y.

Raza, Farrah. 2020. Limitations to the right to religious freedom: rethinking key approaches. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 9(3): 435–462. DOI: 10.1093/ojlr/rwaa025.