Hafsa Ahmad will moderate a panel featuring Justice Alfredo Gutiérrez Ortiz Mena (Supreme Court of Mexico), Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna (Supreme Court of India), Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah (Supreme Court of Pakistan) and Justice José María Macías (Constitutional Court of Spain) on “Public Policy and Judicial Oversight”. This panel will be held on Day 2 of the 2026 Harvard International Arbitration Conference.
The panelists will discuss how courts—particularly supreme courts—are redefining the constitutional boundaries of international arbitration through evolving interpretations of public policy, judicial intervention, and the limits of party autonomy under the New York Convention.
The session will take place at Harvard Law School on Friday, March 6, 2026 from 11:45am to 1:15pm.
For more information, please visit the HIALSA LinkedIn. The Conference Agenda can be accessed here.
ABOUT HAFSA AHMAD
Hafsa is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office. She has experience representing private corporations and state-owned companies in international commercial arbitrations, including under the LCIA, ICC and UNCITRAL rules.
Hafsa holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, she was President of the Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association and article editor at the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Hafsa obtained her LL.B. from the University of London at the University College Lahore campus. She graduated at the top of her class and represented Pakistan in the 2017 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Hafsa also received a B.A. from Middlebury College in International Politics and Economics, with a minor in Art History.
Prior to joining Three Crowns, Hafsa practiced in Pakistan, where she represented clients in LCIA, ICC and ad hoc arbitrations and specialized in energy sector disputes. She appeared before the Lahore High Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan in arbitration-adjacent litigation and constitutional matters. She was also a member of the Faculty of Law at University College Lahore.
Hafsa is admitted in Pakistan and speaks English, Urdu, Punjabi, and Hindi.