Muhammad Usama Shahid Email & Phone Number

Analysing key ideas in ‘History of Economic Thought’ particularly in Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of economics along with their academic and policy implications with the university's faculty, doctoral students, and Hayek Program Scholars.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Prepared a policy paper on shortcomings and changes required in the appointment process of judges in ‘Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue’ (ATIR).• Analysed the concept of ‘indirect discrimination’ as conceived in the constitutions of post-colonial countries of Asia and determined the effectiveness of “affirmative actions” to counter it in the respective countries.• Assisted the dean with filing of an ‘Amicus Curiae brief’ (legal expert opinion) in Islamabad High Court on right to regularization of employment for contractual employees in state owned enterprises.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Analysed the legislative and economic factors contributing to the real estate bubble in Pakistan during early 2000s and its implications for urban design and planning of metropolitan cities.• Interviewed urban studies experts at Lahore Development Authority regarding governance challenges posed by the limitations of the existing legislative frameworks vis-à-vis illegal housing schemes.• Facilitated with development of new elective course ‘Law and the City: Governing an Urban Jungle’ in the law school by assisting with selection of reading material and implementation of pedagogy.• Analysed and prepared fact sheets on numerous cases relating to land grabbing by mafia groups, large-scale land acquisitions by private corporations, and inadequate compensations of acquired land to the stakeholders.• Prepared a research report on lending conditionalities, governance frameworks, and investment priorities of World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and New Development Bank (formerly BRICS Bank).

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Assisted the professor with completion of her DPhil dissertation by analysing public data on housing backlog in metropolitan cities of Pakistan and ensuring proper citing of sources throughout the entire dissertation.• Conducted extensive literature reviews on themes of urban informality, corrupt practices in real estate, and social limitations on exercise of power of eminent domain in Pakistan.• Analysed substantive and procedural differences between Pakistan’s federal and provincial legislations for acquisitions of private property.