Dr. Osama Siddique has been appointed as the Inaugural Henry J. Steiner Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Harvard Law School. This new and prestigious Visiting Professorship is open to non-US scholars, judges and lawyers from all over the world who have made seminal contributions in the area of human rights. The appointment is by invitation only. The appointee is expected to teach two specially designed courses at Harvard Law School, deliver a series of special public talks and lectures hosted by Harvard Law School based research centers and programs, and engage in the various on campus academic and social activities.
The courses offered by Dr. Siddique are titled: (1) From Colonial to Post-Colonial: International Financial Institutions, Access to Justice and Human Rights, and (2) Public Interest Litigation and Constitutional Protection of Human Rights: The South Asian Experience.