Tanzim Afroz
is a lecturer of Law at Edith Cowan University. She holds an LL.B. with Honours and an ll.m. from Dhaka University and Ph.D. from Macquarie University. Her primary research interests are in the areas of environmental law and climate change law. She is the recipient of the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (duration 2010–2013), Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund (2012), and ecu Collaboration Enhancement Scheme for a collaborative national and international interdisciplinary research (2017–2018). Dr Afroz has several publications in renowned journals like Bond Law Review, Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Asia Pacific Viewpoint and Ocean & Coastal Management.
Manjida Ahamed
is a lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Middlesex University, London. She was Lecturer in Law at the Department of Law, Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. She obtained her LL.B. (Hons) and ll.m. from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, ll.m. International Crime and Justice from University of Turin, Italy and United Nation Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, and Ph.D. in International Criminal Law from Middlesex University, United Kingdom. Her research interests focus mainly on international criminal law, customary international law and international human rights law. She was a visiting Lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille, France.
Jobair Alam
is a Lecturer in Law at Staffordshire University, UK, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. He obtained Ph.D. from Macquarie University, Australia with the Dean’s Excellence Award. He secured top position with first class in both ll.m. and LL.B. (Hons) from Dhaka University. In recognition of outstanding academic achievements, he has been awarded 7 gold medals. Jobair has 33 publications including 8 book chapters and 20 journal articles in refereed national and international journals. He has presented 22 scholarly papers at reputed conferences. Jobair’s primary areas of interest are international law, refugee law, human rights, and ethnicity and nationalism.
Shawkat Alam
is a leading authority in International and Environmental Law and serves at Macquarie University, Sydney as a Professor. He specialises in exploring the
Thamil Venthan Ananthavinayagan
ll.m. (Maastricht University), Ph.D. (University of Galway) is Senior Legal Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Assistant Principal at the Department of Justice, Republic of Ireland. He was Teaching Associate and Assistant Professor in Human Rights Law at University of Nottingham (2021–2023). From 2017–2021 he worked at all major Dublin universities. He studied law at Marburg and Bonn (Germany) and Maastricht (The Netherlands). His research interests are rooted in critical approaches to human rights from the Third World Approaches to International Law (twail) and critical investigations of the United Nations human rights regime.
Sadman Rizwan Apurbo
teaches law at the American International University-Bangladesh. He completed his LL.B. (Honors) and ll.m. (specialised in international and comparative law) from the University of Dhaka. He previously served as the editor-in-chief at the Dhaka Law Review. His research interests include intellectual property law, human rights and constitutional law. His latest research work has been published by the Oxford University Press.
Joshua Aston
obtained his Ph.D. in Law from Symbiosis International University, India and Masters in International Criminal Law from University of Sussex, United Kingdom. He is presently an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of Law and member of the School Executive at the School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He is the author of the acclaimed text Trafficking of Women and Children, Article 7 of the Rome Statute and Torture Behind Bars’ Role of the Police Force in India, both published by Oxford University Press.
Jamal Barnes
is Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Arts and Humanities at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. His research interests include human rights, torture, migration and refugees, international law and norms, and international
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
Ph.D. in Law, University of Queensland, Australia, is currently Professor at the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh. He was a Humboldt research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (mpil). He served as an Associate Professor at the Department of Law & Justice, Southeast University, Bangladesh. Jahid’s primary research areas are public international law, and law and religion. He is co-editor of Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill, 2020), Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2049 (Brill, 2020), and Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2020).
Joshua Castellino
is Executive Co-Director of Minority Rights Group International (mrg) and Professor of International & Comparative Law at University of Derby, UK. He founded the Law School at Middlesex University and served as Dean until 2018, stepping down to take on the role at Minority Rights Group. Joshua won a Chevening Scholarship in 1995 to undertake an ma in International Law & Politics in the UK, completing his Ph.D. in International Law in 1998. He has published eight books and over a hundred articles on international law and human rights over twenty-five years in academia, including the Minority Rights Series (Oxford University Press).
Anthony T. Cullen
is an Professor in Law at Middlesex University, London. His degrees include a MA in Ethical and Cultural Studies, a ll.m. in International Human Rights Law, and a Ph.D. in International Humanitarian Law. Dr Cullen is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France; a Senior Research Associate at Dublin City University’s Centre for Educational Disadvantage, Ireland; and a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. His research interests include international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international protection law, the use of contemplative methods in teaching, the decolonization of higher education and student well-being.
is currently working as a Professor of Law at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Macquarie Law School of Macquarie University, Australia in 2017. He is a former Dean and Head of the Department of Law, University of Chittagong. He holds ll.b. (Hons.) and ll.m. degree from the University of Dhaka and Ph.D. degree from Dundee University, UK. His most recent book titled Nuclear Energy, Risks and the Environment has been published by Routledge. He has also contributed a good number of chapters in the books published by Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Springer and Brill.
Elvis Fokala
is the manager of the Children’s Rights Unit, Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria. He holds a Ph.D. in Public International Law (with a specialization in Child Law), from the Åbo Akademi University in Finland. He holds an ll.m. in Multidisciplinary Human Rights Law, from the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and ll. b (hons) from the University of Buea in Cameroon. He has specialised knowledge in Child law, Family law and the Law of Persons.
Muhammad Ekramul Haque
Ph.D. is a Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Dhaka, obtained his Ph.D. in Constitutional Law and International Law from Monash University, Australia. He is a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2024-2026). He co-edited The Constitutional Law of Bangladesh: Progression and Transformation at its 50th Anniversary (Springer, 2023). He is the State Volume Editor of Bangladesh in the Encyclopedia of Public International Law in Asia (Brill, 2021), Section Editor in the International Handbook of Disaster Research (Springer, 2023), Rapporteur in Asian Yearbook of International Law (Brill), and co-editor of Implementation of Sustainable Development in the Global South: Strategies, Innovations and Challenges (Hart, 2024).
Md Naimul Hasan
is an advocate, and he is currently serving as a Senior Lecturer in law at Uttara University, Bangladesh. He has obtained LL.B. (Hons) and ll.m. from the Department of Law, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Apart from human rights law, his areas of study cover diverse arrays of Islamic theology, history of
M Rafiqul Islam
is Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Australia. He obtained Ph.D. and ll.m. from Monash University Australia; LL.B., ba (Honours, Economics), and ma (Economics) from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. His extensive publications include monographs, edited books, book chapters, and refereed journal articles. National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill, Leyden/Boston, 2019) is his recent book. He was awarded the Macquarie University “Outstanding Teacher Award” in 2000, Macquarie University Best Research Supervisor Award in 2013 and Vice Chancellor’s special award for his “service, loyalty and commitments to the University” in 2016.
Mohammad Towhidul Islam
is a Professor of Law at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D. in intellectual property law from the Macquarie University, Australia. He participated in the wipo-wto Colloquium for Intellectual Property Law Teachers held in Geneva and Singapore and attended the un/unitar Fellowship in international law at the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands. He reviews books and articles for several domestic and foreign publishing firms. He has also published research papers, book and book chapters with Oxford University Press, Thomson Reuters, Springers Nature, and Brill.
Borhan Uddin Khan
is currently a Professor in the Department of Law, University of Dhaka and also an Advisor and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh (iub). Borhan holds an ll.m. in Public International Law (1990) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (lse), and Ph.D. (1995) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (soas), University of London. Among other publications, he has co-authored Encyclopedic Compendium of the Laws of Bangladesh (4 Volumes). His recently coedited book publication is: Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill/Nijhoff, 2020) and Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2019 (Brill/Nijhoff, 2020).
is Co-Director of the Centre for Children’s Rights and Professor of Education Law and Children’s Rights in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University, Belfast, Professor of Law in the School of Law at University College Cork and a barrister at law. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Children’s Rights. Her expertise is in law and human rights with a particular focus on children’s right to participate in decision-making, education rights and implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in law and policy.
Md Al Ifran Hossain Mollah
is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Independent University, Bangladesh. He has completed ll.b. (Hons.) and ll.m. degrees at the University of Dhaka. Mr. Mollah has also been awarded with Master of Studies in International Human Rights Law from University of Oxford with Commonwealth Scholarship. His research interests are focused on human rights, public policy and law and politics. Several of his research articles and book chapters have been published by Routledge, Brill-Nijhoff, Springer and cup. Mr. Mollah was a fellow for Global Exchange on Religion in Society (geris) of the European Union during 2021–22.
Mostafa Mahmud Naser
is a Lecturer in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Australia. Mostafa has previously taught law at Macquarie University, Federation University Australia, and the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. He also worked as Research Consultant of iom. Mostafa is admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Mostafa is on the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL). Mostafa’s single-authored monograph – The Emerging Global Consensus on Climate Change and Human Mobility (Routledge, 2021) – examines whether a global consensus is emerging on climate change and human mobility.
Nakib Muhammad Nasrullah
is the professor of public international law at the University of Dhaka. He holds a Ph.D. on international investment law from Macquarie University of Australia with a special focus on regulating foreign direct investment in the development context. Apart from international trade and investment law, his research interests and expertise cover international humanitarian, human rights, criminal laws. One of his notable book publications is csr in Private Enterprises in Developing Countries by Springer in 2014. He is currently assigned
Jamie Patterson
has a Bachelor of Laws from Edith Cowan University and a Master of Business Administration from Curtin University. Jamie is a highly effective Information Technology Executive with over 20 years’ experience in delivering the management of large Information Technology projects in the Oil and Gas, Mining, Professional Services and Local Government sectors.
Noam Peleg
is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales in Sydney. His work focuses on the intersections of international children’s rights law, human rights law, childhood studies, and family law. Noam is the Book Reviews Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Children’s Rights.
Mia Mahmudur Rahim
is an Associate Professor at the School of Law, the Deputy Chair of the Academic Board and the Chair of the Research Committee of the University of New England. He studied law and policy at the National University of Singapore, the University of Warwick, and the University of Dhaka. Macquarie University awarded him his Ph.D. in Law. Before joining academia, he was a judge, a litigation attorney, and a freelance legal researcher. He is the author of Legal Regulation of Corporate Social Responsibility, csr in Private Enterprises and the editor of Social Audit Regulation and Code of Conduct on tncs. His forthcoming research monographs includes Corporate Criminal Liabilities in Environmental Jurisprudence (Routledge) and the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment for Development (Routledge).
Sanoj Rajan
is currently serving as a Distinguished Professor of Law at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, China. He is an Affiliate at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University in Massachusetts, USA, and serves as a Visiting Professor at the Indian Society of International Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, and the International Christian University in Kinshasa, Congo. His latest book, titled International Humanitarian Law in India: A Handbook, is published by Thomson Reuters, Asia Pacific. He was a recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship. He holds a Ph.D., an ll.m. in International Law, and an MSt. in Human Rights from Oxford University.
was admitted to legal practice in wa in 1988. He has taught since 2002 and joined full time academia in 2007 at Notre Dame University Australia before joining Murdoch University in 2011 and then returning to private practice in 2014 to establish his own firm, practising in family and commercial law. Haydn resumed working in full time academia with Curtin University in 2019 and joined ecu in 2021 in a full-time permanent position as lecturer. Haydn attained his Ph.D. in 2017 and his research interests are constitutional law, copyright law, environmental law and legal theory.
Bas Rombouts
is Associate Professor in International Labour Law and Human Rights at the Department of Private, Business and Labour Law at Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University. He is involved in research and teaching on fundamental labour standards, the International Labour Organization, sustainability, corporate responsibilities and broadly the legal protection of vulnerable groups in a globalized world. He has been involved in several research projects inter alia for the ilo, UN and Dutch government.
Mohammad Shahabuddin
(Ph.D.) is Professor of International Law & Human Rights at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), and the editor of Bangladesh and International Law (London: Routledge, 2021). He was an Expert Panellist at the 14th and 15th sessions of the UN Human Rights Council’s Forum on Minority Issues in 2021 and 2022.
Özlem Gürakar Skribeland
is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Law. She obtained her ll.b. from Galatasaray University, Turkey, and did her ll.m. as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, USA. Özlem has a Ph.D. from the University of Oslo. In her thesis Forced Return of Migrants to Transit Countries, she analysed the lawfulness of returning irregular migrants by force to transit countries. Özlem is qualified as a lawyer in Turkey, England and the USA, and has practised law at international law firms in Istanbul and London. She has also published reports on refugee protection in Turkey.
(Ph.D., soas) is Professor of Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Faculty of Law of Hasselt University. He has been a Professor of International Law at the KoGuan School of Law of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a Visiting Scholar at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Summer 2018), the Oxford Institute for Ethics and Law of Armed Conflict (Summer 2019) and the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne (Spring 2020). His latest monographs include War and Law in the Islamic World (Brill/Nijhoff, 2015), Global Governance, Conflict and China (Brill/Nijhoff, 2018), and The Law of International Humanitarian Relief in Non-International Armed Conflicts (Brill/Nijhoff, 2021).
Khorsed Zaman
is a lecturer at the Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University. He holds LL.B. Honours from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh; ll.m. in International and Business Law from Yokohama National University, Japan; and Ph.D. in International Trade Law from Macquarie University, Australia. He served as a Lecturer at Macquarie University and University of Technology Sydney. Dr. Zaman’s research expertise is mainly in the areas of International Economic Law, World Trade Organisation (wto) Law, International Trade and Investment Law, and Intellectual Property Law. He regularly publishes on these areas of law in high impact-factor national and international law journals.