Dr. Afrooz Maghzi is an Iranian lawyer and scholar currently affiliated with the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway. She holds a PhD in Law from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology. A former Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School and previously associated with the FAU Research Centre for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE), her research focuses on the intersection of law, gender, and minority rights in authoritarian contexts.