About
Zaina is currently a lecturer and the Director of the Graduate Entry LLB.
She completed her B.A. at the University of Western Ontario (Canada), double majoring in medical sciences and psychology (2015). She relocated to the United Kingdom to pursue a Graduate LL.B. (2017) and an LL.M. in Intellectual Property Law (2018) at the University of Exeter. She completed her Wellcome Trust-funded Ph.D. at the Wellcome Centre of Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter (2023). Her thesis encompassed empirical socio-legal research, developing an alternative legal framework of surrogacy regulation informed by a comparative examination of surrogates’ lived experiences in Britain and California.
Prior to joining the School of Law and Social Justice, Zaina worked as a socio-legal research associate at one of the largest fertility clinics in the UK, a novel role created to foster and develop industry-based socio-legal research; her work focused on trends and outcomes in relation to egg donation and elective egg freezing. She previously held a socio-legal research fellowship on the Wellcome Trust funded project 'Everyday Cyborgs 2.0: Law’s Boundary Work and Alternative Legal Futures' at the University of Birmingham.