Dr Sahar Shah
PhD, LLB, LLM
Expertise
My work considers the intersections between climate change and jurisprudence, with a focus on critical legal studies and anti-colonial theory. My doctoral research considered these in the context of the Canadian tar sands.
Current positions
Lecturer
University of Bristol Law School
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Biography
Research interests
My work focuses on the intersections between climate justice and jurisprudence, with a particular focus on critical legal and anti-colonial theory. My doctoral research considered these in the context of recent Canadian tar sands legal cases involving Indigenous and Canadian state actors.
Publications
Recent publications
22/07/2025Climate reparations and the language of justice: a legal imperative
Laughing at Law
Law and Critique
See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition by Christopher Michael Brown (review)
Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History
Unreasonable Expectations
The Critical Legal Pocketbook
'Authorizing the Peril': Mythologies of (Settler) Law at the End of Time
Law and Critique
