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Dr. Urquiza Haas is a Lecturer in Law. Dr. Nayeli Urquiza is an interdisciplinary legal scholar whose research draws on socio-legal studies to explore the regulation of medicines, drugs and healthcare practices at the edge of legality.

Her doctoral research, funded by Kent Law School's Studentship, contested traditional concepts and practices in criminal law through an interdisciplinary analysis of vulnerability and gender, applied to the case of women who act as drug mules and have been sentenced for drug importation offences in England and Wales.

Dr. Urquiza was awarded the Witteveen Memorial Fellowship in Law and Humanities by Tilburg University. Her postdoctoral research project explored the complexities around asylum claims drawing on literary studies and feminist philosophy.

Afterwards, Dr. Urquiza Haas joined the Wellcome Trust project "Law, knowledges and the making of 'modern healthcare,'" led by Professor Emilie Cloatre and funded by the Wellcome Investigator Award (2017-2022). She was also a Visiting Fellow at the Law, Health and Justice Centre at the University of Technology Sydney in 2017.

Before her academic career, she worked in the NGO and news media sectors, including Harm Reduction International and the Centre for Human Rights and Drug Policy at Essex University.