Osama Siddique

Osama Siddique is a Pakistani lawyer, scholar, policy advisor and author who has served as the inaugural Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. He was affiliated as an Associate Professor with LUMS between 2005 and 2014. He has also worked as an Associate Attorney at the New York offices of the international law firms of Jones Day and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius between 1997 and 2001. He has practiced as a lawyer in Pakistani courts, is widely published in academic journals, and works in the areas of Pakistani constitutional law, South Asian legal history, legal sociology, and international human rights law. Siddique is also a leading justice sector and Rule of law reform expert in Pakistan.

He is the author of the novel Snuffing Out the Moon published by Penguin Random House, India. Siddique's debut novel has been acclaimed as earthy, salty, elemental, and a must-read; poignant, compelling and thought-provoking; and, aesthetic and transformative.

Siddique also serves as Senior Faculty for the academic workshops conducted by Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School.

He is also the author of the critically acclaimed and multiple award winning book Pakistan's Experience with Formal Law: An Alien Justice (Cambridge University Press: 2013). The book has won the American Institute of Pakistan Studies - AIPS Annual Book Prize (2014–15); as well as Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award (2014) at Karachi Literature Festival.

Siddique obtained a B.A from Government College Lahore and an MBA from LUMS. He went on to read jurisprudence as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and received his LL.M and S.J.D from Harvard Law School.