Dr. Hadia Awan is the first Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. She graduated Law in 1994 by securing first position in the Punjab University, and was offered faculty placement at Pakistan College of Law Lahore in 1994. She has served at various levels of teaching; and in 1999 she competed in judicial service examination and was taken in judicial service. She served as civil Judge cum Judicial Magistrate for a couple of years from 1999-2001. Due to her keen interest in Law teaching she rejoined Law College and resigned as Judge. She served as Associate Dean at Pakistan College of Law, Lahore, from 2001-2006. In 2005 she was selected for ‘Law Teaching & Legal Research’ program, supported by British Council held at Cardiff Law School, UK. She was selected for ‘International Visitors Leadership Program’ by American State department in 2006. She, along with other 24 delegates from around the world were exposed to the Judicial, Legislative, Law enforcement and Legal education system of 11 states of the USA. In the same year she joined Punjab Law College, Lahore as Principal, where she served for eleven years as such. She earned her LL.M in ‘International Conflict Resolution’ from University of London in 2008. She started her PhD in “Peace & Conflict Studies” from National Defence University, Islamabad in 2013. Her topic of research was ‘Peace through Rule of Law, A Community Law Literacy Perspective, Proposed Model for Pakistan’. She was selected for the ‘Immersion Tour’ to US arranged by American Bar Association (ABA) in 2019 for teaching Business Human Rights. Along with five delegates from Pakistan, she visited ABA, various international NGOs, Law firms, Legal Clinics and Universities at Washington DC and Boston to observe the collaborative work of these stake holders for the implementation of ‘soft Law’ framework of ‘Business Human Rights’. She again was selected for a two-year fellowship program organized by Michigan State University (MSU) and National academy of Higher education (NAHE), Pakistan. She has the credit of inventing the first Advocacy training tech, a software designed for training the lawyers and law students in family law trials and got its copy rights from IPO Pakistan. Now a days she is working on developing the Bar Training Tech (BTT) encompassing all possible bar skills and court trials to be taught through tech.
She is a visiting lecturer at Federal Judicial Academy, Islamabad, Punjab Judicial Academy, Lahore, and MPDD Lahore. She is an accredited mediator and advocacy skills trainer. Along with law teaching she has conducted various training sessions, workshops and seminars on diverse areas relating to women, Harassment, Family, HR Policies, and other human rights issues. She is attached with the global forums working for ‘Business Human Rights’ and ‘Refugee Protection Framework’. Few of her initiatives taken as Dean include indigenizing and introducing experiential/clinical pedagogy for LL. B studies, establishing an on-campus ‘Law Clinic’, establishing ‘Peace and mediation center’, organizing legal health camps, legislative theaters, and community law literacy campaigns. Her areas of research and writing include Online Teaching & Learning, Legal Education, Civil Laws, ADR, Family Laws, Ethics and Morality etc.