Moeen Cheema is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Law. He earned his PhD from the ANU College of Law, Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, and Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of London. He has extensive experience in research, teaching and consultancy work across the fields of comparative public law, criminal law, and legal and political developments in Pakistan. An interdisciplinary researcher, his legal scholarship draws on critical approaches to law, constitutional politics and judicial review, criminal justice systems, the intersection of the state and Islamic law, and post-conflict state-building. Moeen has authored and edited several books, chapters and papers examining the history of the law and courts in Pakistan, including Courting Constitutionalism The Politics of Public Law and Judicial Review in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2022). In 2021, he was awarded funding under the Australian Research Council’s DECRA scheme for his project investigating the post-conflict criminal justice reform program in north-western Pakistan.