Hasna Shireen

Biography

Hasna Shireen is the research associate with the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre (ACLRC). Prior to joining the ACLRC, she worked as an articling student at Bennet Jones LLP, Calgary Legal Guidance (CLG) and ACLRC. Previously, she was a research associate at D-NET, Bangladesh (Associate of CARE, Canada) on a human rights project dedicated to empower the socially disadvantaged people, and a faculty of law at the Northern University Bangladesh. She holds an LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law from the University of Calgary. Hasna is the author of various publications dealing with civil liberties, human rights, privacy and access to information. Hasna has passion for human rights and civil liberties and is currently working on a research project to prepare a manual for lawyers to representing mentally disabled persons in the criminal justice system.