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Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow
Health/Mental Health
Primary Office: Oakland, CA
Email: zhayat(at)youthlaw.org
Phone: (510) 835-8098
Fax: (510) 835-8099
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Zahra Hayat earned her undergraduate degree from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in her native Pakistan. As part of her course work in Human Rights Law, she undertook a study of Pakistan's Juvenile Justice System, documenting the conditions of the juvenile ward at one of Pakistan’s largest prisons. That experience, coupled with a broader interest in law as an academic discipline, motivated Zahra to apply to study Jurisprudence at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. While at Oxford, Zahra joined Oxford Pro Bono Publica, a collaborative faculty-student initiative drawing upon participants’ legal expertise to advise human rights groups worldwide. Zahra received her LLM from Yale Law School in 2008. Zahra’s project at NCYL focuses on serving foster children with unmet mental health needs. Zahra will focus particularly on the plight of children with serious mental illnesses who are placed in foster homes across county lines. NCYL intends to address this problem with public information, public policy work, and litigation. Zahra will play a key role, conducting essential research, and participating in all phases of the advocacy.
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