Sanaa聽Ahmed聽began her two-year term at Schulich Law as a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in聽October. After earning her BA and LLB聽in her home country of Pakistan聽from the University of Karachi,聽Sanaa went on to get her LLM at聽the University of Warwick聽and her PhD at Osgoode.聽
We recently chatted with Sanaa about her research, and her impressions of Schulich Law and Halifax.
Why did you want to study law?
I always knew that I would study law. I come from a family of lawyers 鈥� my father was a judge on the Supreme Court of Pakistan 鈥� and all of our conversations around the dinner table were about law and politics.聽The study of law is聽so聽addictive聽鈥撀爋nce you start, you want to聽know聽more and more.
What are you working on while at Schulich Law?
My聽research focuses聽on聽the regulations around money laundering in Canada. I鈥檓 looking to understand why the regulatory regime is so ineffectual and to investigate whether weaknesses are deliberately baked into the system. I think this is important for two reasons. First, when we talk about stopping laundering, we also