Mr. Zeeshan Zafar Hashmi

Mr. Zeeshaan Zafar Hashmi is a founding partner at the law firm of Shujra, Farooq & Hashmi with over a decade’s experience of practising law in Pakistan. He has clerked for the Honourable Chief Justice of Pakistan and worked with some of the leading law firms of the country before founding his own law firm.

Mr. Hashmi is the Lecturer on Jurisprudence & Legal Theory for LL.B. (Hons.) at PCL since 2017 and has also taught LL.B. (Hons.) Criminal Law and LL.M. International Commercial Arbitration on the University of London International Programme at PCL, in addition to teaching MBA Business Law at Government College University, Lahore. Mr. Hashmi’s articles are published in the Pakistan Law Review as well as international law journals. His work on unconstitutional constitutional amendments is cited in journals and books published by the Universities of Oxford. London, and Georgetown.

Mr. Hashmi holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School where he was awarded the Islamic Legal Studies Writing Prize and was an Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. Prior to attending Harvard, Mr. Hashmi graduated from the LL.B. (Hons.) University of London International Programme at Pakistan College of Law. During his time as a student at PCL, Mr. Hashmi brought many mooting accolades to the College, including representing the College and Pakistan for the first time in the Hong Kong IHL Moot and the ICRC Regional Henry Dunant Moot, where he won the “Best Advocate in South Asia” award. Mr. Hashmi took his expertise forward and taught the first ever formal moot court training courses in Pakistan at PCL in 2012.

Mr. Hashmi can be reached at zzhashmi@alumni.harvard.edu