Waheeda Amien is a Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT), an admitted Attorney of the High Court, with right of appearance in the High Court, and a Family Law Mediator.

Professor Amien holds a BA LLB (Cape Town), LLM in Constitutional Litigation (Western Cape), PhD (Ghent). She is a National Research Foundation (NRF) C2 Rated Researcher (2019 -2024).

She is a member of the South African Law Reform Commission’s Advisory Committee Project 100E on the Review of Aspects of Matrimonial Property Law, and a member of several editorial boards of leading international journals including the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis, South Asia Research, International Journal of Law and Society, and Mediation, Theory and Practice.