People Biography

Biography

Sehrish Javid is an S.J.D. candidate and has previously worked as a Doctoral Fellow on the Industrial Policy for Digital Development (IPDD) Project at the College of Law. She is currently a researcher on the project: Visualizing Adaptive and Transformative Governance: Qatar at the Nexus of Local, Regional, Transnational and Global Change.

Her research focuses on the evolving relationship between trade and peace in international economic law. Her dissertation explores the shifting dynamic of this nexus tracing its roots in liberal peace theory to a contemporary reformulation characterised by a strategic and often coercive use of trade instruments.

Sehrish holds an LLB, an MA in Near and Middle Eastern History from SOAS, and an MSc in South Asian Studies with Persian from the University of Oxford. Her regional expertise and historical grounding inform her legal scholarship allowing for a nuanced and multidisciplinary approach to legal research. Her research interests reflect this multidisciplinary approach and include the interplay between law, development studies, economic governance, and geopolitics.