Lara Ibrahim

Lara Ibrahim is a DPhil in Law student at the Faculty of Law and the recipient of the Faculty's BAME DPhil in Law Scholarship in conjunction with Oriel College. Her thesis examines the extraterritorial human rights obligations of States in relation to environmental harm and climate change, supervised by Professor Lavanya Rajamani and Dr. Ekaterina Aristova. 

Lara has held various teaching roles at Oxford, including as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Public International Law for the Faculty and as a Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Oriel College. She is a Blog Editor for the Oxford Human Rights Hub and is a Graduate Research Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. During the 2023/24 academic year, Lara was a Judicial Fellow to the Vice-President at the International Court of Justice.

In 2022, Lara graduated from the BCL with Distinction. Prior to studying at Oxford, Lara completed her LLB and an LLM in International Law and Global Justice at The University of Sheffield, for which she received full funding in the form of a Sheffield Postgraduate Scholarship. She graduated first in her LLB cohort, receiving the 2020 Vaughan Bevan Memorial Prize. In Sheffield, Lara co-founded the Lawyers Without Borders Student Division, and competed in the 2020 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition.