Sania Anwar

Sania Anwar is Columbia Law School’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg Academic Fellow and is also a doctoral candidate at the law school.  She was the recipient of Columbia Law School’s E.B. Convers Prize, awarded annually for the best original essay on a legal subject.

Sania’s research areas include private law, disability law, legal theory, and equality.  Her current project reimagines tort law theory by examining how law reflects, interprets, and constructs norms of accountability and evaluation within broad networks of individual and institutional affiliations, structures, and interactions. Her paper, The First-Person Account of Relationality, was one of the six papers selected for the 2025 Equality Law Scholars Forum.

Sania received her J.D. from University of Colorado Law School, where she was the recipient of the Legal Aid and Defender Program Award for outstanding performance.  After law school, she served as law clerk to Judge Sandra I. Rothenberg of the Colorado Court of Appeals.  Sania practiced complex trial and appellate litigation before starting a non-profit organization to bring primary education to marginalized and under-served children, especially young girls, with beginnings in remote areas of Pakistan.  Sania has worked on transnational initiatives and projects on justice. Her scholarship on human dignity was published in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Rights and Human Dignity.

Sania was a teaching fellow at Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional & Social Change and a policy advisor for Broadway Advocacy Coalition, a collaboration between artists, legal and policy experts, students, and community leaders for a just world.