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Aisha Saad, 2016

Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Aisha Saad is an immigrant from Egypt

Fellowship awarded to support work towards a JD at Yale University

Aisha was born in Cairo, Egypt and immigrated to the United States with her family in the early 1990s. Aisha's early childhood in Egypt and regular summer visits growing up gave her dual exposure to industrial development and its disparate impacts on a global scale. During a summer project in Bhopal, India in 2008, Aisha visited Union Carbide’s industrial disaster site. She learned about the ongoing legal campaigns for justice and became captivated by challenges of the corporate form and its legal and environmental implications.

After graduating from UNC Chapel Hill, Aisha pursued master's and doctorate degrees at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, focusing on public challenges to the modern corporation and the development of effective corporate responsibility regimes. Aisha then spent two years as an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo, helping to launch a master's in sustainable development. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and was a Earl B. Dickerson Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the Director of Executive Education for Oxford University’s Sustainable Law Program. She is currently an associate professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Education
  • JD | Yale University 2018
  • DPhil Geography and the Environment | Oxford University 2013
  • MPhil Nature Society & Environmental Policy | Oxford University 2011
  • BS Environmental Health Science | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2009
  • BA Spanish Language and Literature | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2009
Awards
  • Rhodes Scholar
  • Morehead-Cain Scholar
  • Switzer Fellow
Work History
  • Georgetown University Law Center, Associate Professor of Law
  • University of Chicago Law School, Earl B. Dickerson Fellow and Lecturer in Law | September 2021
  • Harvard Law School, Program on Corporate Governance, Fellow
  • Oxford University's Sustainable Law Program, Director of Executive Education
  • Yale Law School, Bartlett Fellow
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