Pegah Banihashemi is currently a JSD candidate at the University of Chicago Law School, where she also completed an LL.M. in 2022.

Pegah is currently working on the history of the formation of the Iranian Constitution both before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. In this project, she will explore the problems of implementing the Constitution in Iran. Part of Pegah's project is dedicated to the issue of comparative comparison of constitutions among different countries, and she intends to present in her work a suitable format of a constitution that can be more stable over time.

Pegah began her undergraduate studies focussing on French literature in Iran where reading the works of French philosophers and thinkers piqued her interest in the field of law. She completed a second Bachelor’s of Law, after which, she earned a Master's and LL.M. in International Commercial Law and Private Law at Shahid Beheshti University, achieving a first rank and defending her thesis in international arbitration. In Britain, she worked on human rights research, commentary, and advocacy, focusing on death sentences, immigration law, and women's and children's rights in Middle Eastern and Sharia Law. She has worked extensively in the analysis of international law and international human rights and is a regular expert legal analyst with many global media outlets and non-profits. Also, she has taught several legal courses on topics including women, economics, and the law, human rights advocacy, and students’ and teachers’ rights.