Structures of Resistance/Control and "Declassifying" the War on Terror, ClassCrits X, New Orleans, 2017.
Deconstructing the International Public/Private Divide: Reproductive Rights and International Law, International Law Weekend, New York, 2017.
Islamophobia and Property Lawfare, Invited Lecture, University of Windsor, Ontario, 2017.
Islamophobia and Property Lawfare, LatCrit X, Orlando, 2017.
International Law and the Struggle to Become Experts: Other Terrains and Other Expertise in David Kennedy’s “A World of Struggle” International Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, 2017.
New Approaches & Challenges to Reproductive Justice, FIU Law Review Symposium, Miami, 2016.
Development, Families and Gender: From Colonial Legal Construction to Modern Economic Restructuring, Law and Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2016.
Development, Families and Gender: From Colonial Legal Construction to Modern Economic Restructuring, Family Law Scholars and Teachers, New Orleans 2016.
Asian-Americans in the Law: Achieving Visibility as Well as Success, National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms, Diversity Conference, Chicago, 2016.
International Labor and the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, Nova Southeastern Shepard Broad School of Law, 2015.
Rethinking Postcolonial and Islamic Scholarship: ISIS and Islamist Violence as Competing Imperialism, Institute for Global Law and Policy Conference, Harvard University, 2015.
ISIS, Islamic Law and Third World Approaches to International Law: A Failure of Analysis, Third World Approaches to International Law Conference, American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, February 2015.
The Political Economy of Transnational Reproductive Labor and Its Legal Regulation, Plenary Panel of Experts on International Family Law, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Doha, Qatar, January, 2014.
The Political Economy of Transnational Reproductive Labor and Its Legal Regulation, Beyond Roe Conference, Rutgers University Law School-Camden, October 2013.
Hard Labor: The Legal Regulation of Migrant Domestic Workers from South Asia to the Gulf, LatCritXVI, Chicago, IL, October 2013.
Economies of Desire Proseminar, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University, 2013.
Transnational Surrogacy and Its Legal Regulation, IGLP at 5 Conference, Harvard University, 2013.
Domestic Violence in Comparison: A Response to Leigh Goodmark’s “Troubled Marriages”, Feminist Legal Theory-Collaborative Research Network, Law and Society, May 2013 (invited).
Transnational Surrogacy and Its Legal Regulation, Feminist Legal Theory-Collaborative Research Network, Law and Society, May 2013.
Contesting the Oppositional Religious Stance Against LGBTiQ Recognition in India, The Association of American Law Schools Conference Section on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2013 (invited).
Outsourcing Wombs, ClassCrits Conference, University of Wisconsin Law School, (panel convener and moderator) October 2012.
Outsourcing Wombs, Social Justice Feminism Conference, University of Cincinnati Law School (presenter, panel convener and moderator), October 2012.
Teaching TWAIL in a Time of Terror, SALT Conference, University of Baltimore School of Law, October 2012.
The Gendered Effects of Development Displacement, Institute for Global Law and Policy Workshop, Harvard University Law School, June 2012.
Exporting Subjects, selected as one of 4 panelists for “New Voices in Human Rights,” The Association of American Law Schools, Washington, DC January 6, 2012.
Gendered Effects/Distributing Progress, Third World Approaches to International Law Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, 2011.
Between Tradition and Progress: A Comparative Perspective on U.S. and Indian Family Law, invited presenter at the Symposium on Indian and U.S. Family Law, University of Colorado Law School, 2011 (invited).
Exporting Subjects, at Workshop on Reproduction and Sex in Contemporary Governmentalities: Governance Feminism and its Others, Harvard Law School, September 16, 2011 (invited).
Gendered Effects/Distributing Progress through Indian Public Interest Litigation: lessons from the last thirty years, SEALS, Hilton Head, S.C., 2011 (invited).
Shari’ah as National Security Threat(?), presenter, Institute for Global Law and Policy Workshop, Harvard University Law School, 2011.
Shari’ah as National Security Threat(?), presenter, Faculty Workshop, Florida International University College of Law, 2011.
FIU Symposium, The U.S. Immigration Crises, Panel II, Panel Commentator, Florida International University, 2011.
Who’s Afraid of Islamic Law? Panelist, University of Miami School of Law, 2011 (invited).
Islamic Secularism: A Contradiction in Terms? Public Lecture, Middle East Society, Florida International University, 2011 (invited).
NeoFeminism: Exploring New Feminist Analyses and Methodologies panel presenter, LatCrit XV, Denver, Colorado, 2010.
Globalizing the Margins, Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, 2010.
Neofeminism Workshop Co-organizer and presenter, Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, University of Baltimore, 2010.
Obama’s Public Religion, Moderator of panel, LatCrit XIV American University, Washington, D.C., 2009.
The Regulation of Latino Migrant “Economic Terrorists” in the New Jim Crow? LatCrit XIV American University, Washington, D.C., 2009.
A bit on the side? Moderator of panel at Law and Society, Denver, Colorado, 2009.
Liberal Feminism’s International Embrace, Law and Society, Denver, Colorado, 2009.
Islamic Law and New Approaches to Comparative Law, Law and Society, 2009 (invited panelist).
Comparative Islamic Family Law: Divorce and Maintenance Emerging Family Law Scholars, Cardozo Law School, New York, 2009.
International Human Rights: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary University of Maryland School of Law, invited commentor on law and the claims of culture and religion, 2008.
•Freedom House Roundtable on Saudi Legal Reform, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., 2008.
•Empowerment and Estrangement: Liberal (Feminist) Theory’s Alliance with International Human Rights and Muslim Women’s Progress into the Third Wave paper presented at University of Baltimore School of Law, Feminist Legal Theory and Feminisms Conference, 2008.
•Critical Legal Theory Seminar, Guest Lecturer, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., Fall 2006.