Farrah is a Lecturer in Law with an interdisciplinary research profile. Her research areas include:

• Medical Law and Ethics
• Public Law
• Comparative Human Rights Law
• Children’s Rights
• Law & Religion

She has expertise on the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief. Her first monograph, Religious Accommodation and its Limits (Hart Publishing, 2023), which offers model of accommodation. Drawing on a range of case study examples from jurisdictions including the USA, Canada, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Union's Court of Justice, the UK, Germany and France, the book examines how a legal duty or policy approach in favour of religious accommodation can be applied in practice. Moreover, the proposed model offers criteria that may be used to guide the implementation of equality and diversity policies in contexts such as employment and education. The book is relevant to academics, legal practitioners, and policy-makers in the field.

Her current research focuses on the doctrine of consent and capacity, with particular emphasis on organ transplantation, addressing complex legal, ethical, and regulatory challenges in both domestic and comparative contexts. 

Farrah has taught Public Law at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, and has been awarded competitive internal research grants at Oxford including the John Fell Fund, jointly with Professor Jonathan Herring, for organising a series of workshops and a Conference on Children and Transplantation Medicine.

Farrah was awarded the Minerva Fast Track Fellowship by the Max Planck Society which offers exceptional female scientists the opportunity to establish a Research Group. She led the Research Group on Organ Donation and Transplantation in the UK and Germany at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany from 2020 to 2025.

Teaching

Farrah over ten years of teaching experience including teaching for  Pembroke College, University of Oxford, the University of South Carolina in the USA, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany, SOAS, University of London, and King’s College London.

Farrah currently teaches:

• LL2002: Law of Tort
• LL3005: Medical Law