Dr Erum Sattar
Dr Erum K. Sattar LLB, LLM, SJD, is a Lecturer and Former Program Director of the Sustainable Water Management program at the Institute of the Enviornment at Tufts University. She has degrees from Harvard Law School, Queen Mary University and the University of London. Dr. Sattar is a Member of the Bar of England and Wales and The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn.
Dr Sattar is a Pakistani legal scholar specialising in water law amidst global environmental and institutional challenges. Her interdisciplinary research examines the impact of water governance and transboundary water sharing on food production, livelihoods and migration, highlighting the legal and institutional adaptation structures required at a global level. Her doctoral research, spanning law and policy focused on issues of water federalism and transboundary water sharing in the Indus River Basin. She has an upcoming chapter on International Water Law and its history, application and future in Pakistan, where the country both relies on the development of water law doctrines from other jurisdictions but also aims to shape their future direction. She is also co-editor of the upcoming The Cambridge Handbook of Islam and Environmental Law.
Her scholarly articles and book chapters have appeared in leading academic publications, including University of Pennsylvania Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, Springer, University of Indiana Press, Water Policy, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, Journal of Food Law and Policy and Research Handbook on Energy, Law and Ethics.
Beyond Tufts, Dr Sattar has taught at the Elizabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University, Northeastern University School of Law and the National University of Singapore School of Law where she taught the school’s first-ever course on water law and policy. In the last few years, she has been helping to organise a series of conferences on water security for Pakistan’s Supreme Court, linking legal expertise with on-the-ground policy transformation.
Click the ‘Listen’ button below to hear Dominic Bowen and Dr Erum Sattar unpack the future of Pakistan’s water security. From August’s devastating floods in the northern provinces to India’s suspension of the Indus Water Treaty earlier this year to the ways climate change is reshaping risks and Indus river flows, this episode examines the mounting pressures threatening Pakistan’s water resources. Click ‘Read’ for a more in-depth analysis.
