Nadia B. Ahmad

Biography

Nadia B. Ahmad is an Assistant Professor at Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. Professor Ahmad’s research explores the intersections of energy siting, the environment, and sustainable development and draws on international investment law and corporate social responsibility. She has published over 20 scholarly articles, book chapters, and reviews. Professor Ahmad was competitively selected twice to present at the Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Scholarship at Columbia Law School. She has presented her research on the law and policy of second generation biofuels in Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Cambridge, Doha, Denver, and New York. Prior to joining the Barry Law faculty, Professor Ahmad was the inaugural Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Law at Pace Law School. She also served as a Legal Fellow with Sustainable Development Strategies Group and conducted research at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at Columbia University. Professor Ahmad’s earlier experience included working for a multinational oil and gas company in Denver and in private law practice in Florida. Professor Ahmad earned an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature with language emphases in Latin and English from the University of California at Berkeley with high honors. Her undergraduate thesis examined representations of tradition and modernity in Indo-Anglian literature from 1947 to 1997. She completed her a law degree (J.D.) from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was a Virgil Hawkins Fellowship recipient. At UF Law, she served as executive editor of the Florida Journal of International Law and wrote about women’s property rights in Post-Partition South Asia. Later, she earned a masters of law (LL.M.) in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where she explored the legal barriers for the deployment of advanced renewable technologies in the Global South and worked on the editorial review of the Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law. She currently serves as a Chair of the ABA’s Environmental Justice Committee, Chair of Younger Comparativists Committee’s Linkages and Engagement Advisory Group of the American Society of Comparative Law, and Regional Chair of Mid-Florida for the Florida Muslim Bar Association. She was previously Chair of the Florida Bar’s Media and Communications Law Committee and a Board Member of the City and County of Denver’s Human Rights and Community Partnerships Advisory Board. Professor Ahmad is a member of the state bars of Florida and Colorado.

Research Interest

Natural Resources Law