Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
is Professor at the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh and an External Fellow at the tc Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Australia. He was a Humboldt research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (mpil), Germany. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, UK; Cardiff University, UK; Emory University, US; and University of British Columbia, Canada. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Queensland, Australia and an llm from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He has co-edited Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill | Nijhoff, 2022), Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2019 (Brill | Nijhoff, 2020), Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2020), International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability (Routledge, 2017), International Trade Law and the wto (Federation Press, 2013), An Introduction to International Refugee Law (Brill | Nijhoff, 2013), Globalization, International Law, and Human Rights (Oxford University Press, 2012), Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law (Routledge, 2012), An Introduction to International Human Rights Law (Brill | Nijhoff, 2010), and International Humanitarian Law – An Anthology (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2009) amongst other scholarly books.
M Rafiqul Islam
is currently Emeritus Professor of Law at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He obtained Ph.D. and llm from Monash University Australia; llb, ba (Honours, Economics), and ma (Economics) from Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. Professor Islam has been an active legal academic and researcher and has published extensively in his areas of teaching and research interest, mostly in public international law. He has well over hundred publications including International Trade Law of the wto (Oxford University Press, 2006); An Introduction to International Refugee Law (Brill | Nijhoff,, Leiden/Boston, 2013, co-ed); International Law: Current Concepts and Future Directions (LexisNexis Australia, 2014), National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill | Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston, 2019), The Constitutional Law of Bangladesh: Progression and Transformation at its 50th Anniversary (Springer, 2023, co-ed). He was awarded the “Outstanding Teacher Award” by Macquarie University in 2000 for his