Fozia Nazir Lone

Short Biography

Fozia Nazir Lone was recently appointed as an assistant professor at the City University of Hong Kong. She successfully completed her PhD in November 2008 without any corrections on ‘Restoration of Historical Title and the Kashmir Question: An International Legal Appraisal’ from the University of Aberdeen. Her thesis taking the interdisciplinary approach and unifying the areas of law, politics, policy and archival history argues the Kashmir question that form a new perspective of restoration of historical title. This work also analyses the international community’s foreign policy and legal position on Kashmir and discusses the consequences of abandoning the Kashmir question and letting it fester in the face of danger of potential nuclear war and spread of terrorism. She tutored Public International Law at Aberdeen University during her PhD and later was (and still is) an Honorary Research Assistant at the University of Aberdeen where she works on a project on ‘Palestine and Kashmir: A Failure of nerve at the End of Imperial Administration’. Her forthcoming publication includes ‘The Creation Story of Kashmiri People: The Right to Self-Determination’ (Denning Law Journal). She holds an LLB from the Kashmir University and an LLM in Criminal Justice and Human Rights from the University of Aberdeen. Her research and teaching interests lay in the area of: Public International Law; International Human Rights; relationship between Law, Politics and History; Law and Literature; Conflict Resolution; Constitutional Law; Law of Torts and British Colonial History.