Yasser Latif Hamdani

Yasser Latif Hamdani is a corporate and constitutional lawyer interested in aviation law, space law, digital rights, technology and telecommunications, and corporate law.  He is a barrister at Lincoln's Inn, holding an LLB and an LLM. He studied economics at Rutgers University, USA (2002). He’s an Asia Society Fellow (2014) and Harvard University Law and Human Rights Fellow (2018). Some notable constitutional and technology cases he has fought include the YouTube un-ban case (2013-2016), a challenge to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act -PECA (2017-2020), and unbanning BIS for Blackberry (2011) in the early days of digital rights litigation in Pakistan. He was in-house counsel for Pakistan's largest telecom company, Jazz, and the government-owned telecom company, Ufone. He has authored a widely acclaimed book by PanMcmillan called Jinnah - A Life. Yasser is a contributing author to The Print, Dawn, Daily Times, Express Tribune, Pakistan Today, The Hindu, India Today, Tony Blair Foundation, and the Jinnah Institute.