Livia HOLDEN

Prof. Dr. Livia Holden is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science and Chair of the Department of Behavioural Sciences at the Karakoram International University. She holds a Master and an M.Phil from the University of Paris 10 – Nanterre and a PhD in Law and Social Sciences from SOAS-University of London. She has worked at Freie University, Humboldt University, Griffith University and LUMS. She has research affiliations with the Law Department of the University of Otago and with the University of California at Berkeley. She is Visiting Scholar at the European Ethnology Department at Humboldt University and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Her research focuses on state law, religious law, and mixed sources of law and their implications with gender, human rights and governance in South Asia and in the diasporas. She has provided consultancies and expertise in anthropology of law, anthropology of borders, qualitative research methods, ethics, human rights, institutional development, asylum and immigration related cases in the US and UK courts. She is the author of Hindu Divorce and the editor (and contributor) of Cultural Expertise and Litigation. She has also realized two documentary-films, Runaway Wives and Lady Judges of Pakistan, and contributed with chapters and papers to collected volumes and journals such as the Journal of Legal Pluralism, South Asia Research and the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law. Her teaching portfolio includes International Human Rights, Qualitative Research Methods, Mountain Areas and Development, Anthropology of Corruption, Anthropology of Law, South Asian Diasporas, Lawyering and Legal Practice, and Cultural Expertise and Litigation.