Dr Leila Faghfouri Azar is Lecturer and Research Fellow in Legal Theory at the Faculty of Law, and member of Decolonial Futures Research Group. She is a critical legal scholar whose research explores the intersections of law, philosophy, and social theory, with a particular focus on critiques of human rights, decolonial approaches to legal epistemology, and Indigenous and praxis-based theorisations of legality. Her current research centres on a forthcoming monograph examining the legal normalisation of undocumented migrants’ labour dispossession under the European human rights regime.

Faghfouri Azar teaches and supervises student theses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in legal theory and interdisciplinary studies. Her teaching includes the BA courses History of Legal Theory, Critical Legal Analysis, Slavery and Abolition, and Securitisation of Migration in Europe, as well as the PhD course Theory and Methods of Legal Research.

Faghfouri Azar obtained her PhD in Legal Theory from the University of Amsterdam. She completed postgraduate training in Socio-Legal Theory at the University of Oxford and holds an MA in Philosophy from Leiden University, an LLM in Human Rights Law from Shahid Beheshti University, and an LLB from the University of Tehran.