Qaraman Hasan
Research Scholar
B.A in Law, Koya University
LL.M., Macquarie University, Australia
Master of International Relations, Macquarie University, Australia
PhD in Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Dr. Qaraman Hasan is a Research Scholar at the University of Houston Law Center. He teaches and instructs courses in environmental and energy law. He also coordinates with the Environment, Energy & Natural Resources Center (EENR) co-directors to supervise the center’s activities. At the university level, Dr. Hasan is collaborating with the University of Houston Energy team, which encompasses several disciplines, to publish regulatory papers and law review articles on major legal issues in the US.
Dr. Qaraman Hasan was a Postdoctoral fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC. At SAIS, Dr. Qaraman worked and supervised several energy and environment projects. Previously, He was a law lecturer at the University of Raparin in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. He studied a Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) in environmental law at Te Piringa - Faculty of Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He worked as a Teaching Fellow at Waikato University’s Faculty of Law. Dr. Qaraman also holds a double master’s degree in international law and international relations from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Over the last decade, he taught several subjects, including Environmental Law, Introduction to Law, Climate Change Law, Business Law & the Legal Environment and Corporate Entities.
Dr. Hasan was a guest editor for the Business and Human Rights Journal at Cambridge University Press on the issue of Business, Human Rights and Just Transition in the Energy and Extractive Industries. He is actively researching and publishing on environmental law, energy law, business and environment, just transition, environmental policy, and climate change issues. With more than a dozen peer-reviewed articles in highly ranked journals and law review publications, including the forthcoming article in the Harvard Environmental Law Review, and over 160 citations, he contributes significantly to legislative affairs, teaching, and research at UHLC and the university level.
