Description

Transboundary water institutions in the Indus River Basin can be fairly characterized as broken in key respects. These include international relations between Pakistan and India over the Indus Waters Treaty, as well as interprovincial relations within Pakistan over the 1991 Water Accord. Dr. Erum Sattar, is the lead author on a co-authored paper written with colleagues at the Universities of Wyoming and Utah. The paper stems from research undertaken by the authors for the Harvard Water Federalism Project and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). It seeks to spur the evolution of the Indus River Basin’s water institutions by offering a comparative perspective and reference points about transboundary water allocation, conservation, and governance, from North America’s most “institutionally encompassed” basin, the Colorado River Basin.

To download the paper, please click on the link: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol51/iss4/3/

About The Speaker

Dr. Erum Sattar received her Doctorate in Juridical Sciences (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School (HLS, 2017) with a focus on water federalism and transboundary water sharing in the Indus River Basin. Prior to Harvard, she qualified as a Barrister-at-Law from The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. She cofounded the Water Law Study Group at HLS and teaches water law and development policy at Tufts University in the Sustainable Water Management Program. As a Visiting Professor at NUS, she is teaching the School of Law’s first ever course on water law, ‘Water Rights & Resources: Issues in Law & Development’.