Dr Zainab Naqvi
Reader in Critical Feminist Legal Studies
My profile
Biography
Zainab completed her LLB (Law and French) at Coventry University, her LLM (General) at the University of Birmingham and remained at Birmingham to complete her PhD. Her research interests focus on legal and judicial responses to minoritised communities in the UK.
Zainab was appointed Lecturer in Law at Coventry University and later Senior Lecturer in Law at De Montfort University. She is now Reader in Critical Feminist Legal Studies.
She is an editor for the international peer review journal Feminist Legal Studies and a Trustee of the Daphne Jackson Trust.
Projects
Lead Applicant
SLSA Grant Impact Scheme (2022): ‘Publish Not Perish’: An Academic Publishing Podcast - £1450
DMU Research and Scholarship Support Scheme (2021): Teaching Assistant Cover for 2021-2022 - £ 2,242.85
DMU Future Research Leaders Support Scheme (2020): Teaching Assistant Cover for 2021 - £1500
Feminist Review Trust Award (2020): “Global South” Feminist Early Career Researcher Writing Workshop, UK - £3010
British Academy – Council for British Research in the Levant ECR Seed Funding (2020): Investigating the Racialised Selectivity of Humanitarian Financial Aid in Jordan - £3590
DMU Faculty of Business and Law Research Support Funding 2019/20 (Special Rapid Call to Respond to COVID-19) (2020): Remote Research Activities Equipment - £69.99
Economic and Social Research Council Doctoral Researcher Studentship, University of Birmingham (2013-2016)
University of Birmingham CAL Development Fund Grant (2015): Graduate Centre for Europe, 9th Annual Conference ‘Dissident Voices? Europe Past, Present and Future’ - £1390
Co-Applicant
British Academy – Council for British Research in the Levant ECR Seed Funding (2020): ‘Trajectories of Belonging Among Migrant Domestic Workers’ Workshop University of Petra, Jordan - £3250
Research outputs
Zainab Batul Naqvi, ‘Polygamy in English Marriage Law – Critical Postcolonial Perspectives’ in Rebecca Probert and Sharon Thompson (eds.), Elgar Research Handbook on Law: Marriage and Cohabitation (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024)
Zainab Batul Naqvi, Polygamy, Policy, and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law – A Critical Feminist Analysis (Bristol UP 2023)
Zainab Batul Naqvi, ‘Coloniality, Belonging and Citizenship Deprivation in the UK: Exploring Judicial Responses (2022) 31(4) Social & Legal Studies 515
Zainab Batul Naqvi, ‘Our Favourite CRT: Attia Hosain’ (Critical Legal Thinking, 28 October 2020)
https://criticallegalthinking.com/2020/10/28/our-favourite-crt-attia-ho…
Zainab Batul Naqvi and Yvette Russell, ‘A Wench’s Guide to Surviving a “Global” Pandemic Crisis: FLS’ Editors Reflect’ (2020) 28(2) Feminist Legal Studies 113
Zainab Naqvi, ‘Nikah Ceremonies in the UK – A Tool for Empowerment?’ in Rajnaara Akhtar, Patrick Nash and Rebecca Probert (eds.), Cohabitation and Religious Marriage: Status, Similarities and Solutions (Bristol UP 2020)
Zainab Batul Naqvi, ‘Book Review Essay: Critical Perspectives on Trafficked Persons in Canada and the US: Survivors or Perpetrators?’ (2020) 28(1) Feminist Legal Studies 107-112
Zainab Batul Naqvi,Ruth Fletcher, Diamond Ashiagbor and Katie Cruz, ‘Editorial - Back at the Kitchen Table: Reflections on Decolonizing and Internationalizing with the Global South Writing Workshops’ (2019) 27(3) Feminist Legal Studies 123-137
Zainab Batul Naqvi, ‘A Contextualised Historical Account of Changing Judicial Attitudes to Polygamous Marriage in the English Courts’ (2017) 13(3) International Journal of Law in Context 408
Zainab Naqvi, ‘It’s Women Who Suffer from a Lack of Recognition of Polygamous Marriage’ (The Conversation, 11 May 2016) https://theconversation.com/its-women-who-suffer-from-a-lack-of-recogni…
Gail Mobley, Zainab Batul Naqvi, Daria Sinziana Neagu, Enrico Vanino, Ivor Bolton and Marine Poirier (eds.), Travelling Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Place and Space (CSP 2015)
Zainab Batul Naqvi, ‘A Critical Discussion of the European Parliament’ (2013) 3 Birmingham Journal for Europe http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/gcfe/bjfe/issue-3…
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Naqvi, Z.B. (2023) Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: a critical feminist analysis. Bristol: Policy Press.
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Journal articles
Naqvi, Z.B. (2023) 'The racialising effects of non-marriage in English Law: a critical postcolonial analysis.' International Journal of Law in Context, 19(4) pp. 578-596.
Naqvi, Z.B. (2021) 'Coloniality, belonging and citizenship deprivation in the UK: exploring judicial responses.' Social and Legal Studies: an international journal, 31(4) pp. 515-534.
Naqvi, Z.B., Russell, Y. (2020) 'Editorial: A wench’s guide to surviving a ‘global’ pandemic crisis: feminist publishing in a time of COVID-19.' Feminist Legal Studies, 28(2) pp. 113-131.
Naqvi, Z.B. (2019) 'Book review: Critical Perspectives on Trafficked Persons in Canada and the US: Survivors or Perpetrators?.' Feminist Legal Studies, 28(1) pp. 107-112.
Naqvi, Z.B., Fletcher, R., Ashiagbor, D., Cruz, K., Russell, Y. (2019) 'Editorial: Back at the kitchen table: reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops.' Feminist Legal Studies, 27(2) pp. 123-137.
Naqvi, Z.B. (2017) 'A contextualised historical account of changing judicial attitudes to polygamous marriage in the English courts.' International Journal of Law in Context, 13(3) pp. 408-428.