Upendra D. Acharya
is a Professor and Norman & Rita Roberts Scholar at Gonzaga University School of Law. He has represented landmark cases in the Supreme Court of Nepal, including a daughter’s right to inherent property, and the Godabary Marble case that resulted in the passage of the first Environmental Protection Act in Nepal. He is currently a vice president of Asian Society of International Law. He also serves as the chair of the Human Rights Special Interest Group of the Society. Professor Acharya has presented and written papers on cutting-edge issues of international law, including terrorism, U.S. Foreign Policy, globalisation, international economic law, and human rights.
Jobair Alam
is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Dhaka. He obtained PhD from Macquarie University Law School in 2019 with Executive Dean’s Excellence Award. He secured top positions with first class in both ll.m. and ll.b. (Hons) examinations from Dhaka University Law Department and has been awarded 7 gold medals from the President, the Prime Minister, and the Chief Justice of Bangladesh. Apart from 14 paper presentations, Jobair has published 2 book chapters and 16 articles in refereed national and international journals. His primary areas of interest are international law, human rights, and ethnicity and nationalism.
Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
PhD in Law, University of Queensland, Australia, is currently 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 before coming to the mpil. Jahid’s primary research areas are public international law, and law and religion. He is co- editor of Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2049 (Brill, 2020), Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2020), International Natural Resources Law, Investment and Sustainability (Routledge, 2017) and Routledge Handbook of International Environmental Law (Routledge, 2012).
Srinivas Burra
is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University, New Delhi. He holds PhD in international law from Jawaharlal
Calli M. Cain
is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Florida Atlantic University. She earned her doctorate from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2018. Her primary research interests include victimisation, human trafficking, juvenile delinquency, gender, corrections, and sex offender policy. She has published over 20 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, or white papers and her work has appeared in Violence & Victims, Victims & Offenders, Journal of Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Policy Review, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Law & Society Review, and Trauma, Violence, & Abuse.
Md Mostafa Hosain
is an Assistant Professor at School of Law, Brac University. He pursued Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) and Master of Laws (ll.m,) in International Law from South Asian University, India. He was awarded saarc-Gold Medal for the distinction in ll.m class. Hosain completed pg Diploma in ‘International law and Diplomacy’ from isil. He pursued Bachelor of Laws (ll.b Hons) from the University of Dhaka. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Kathmandu Law School, Nepal.
M Sanjeeb Hossain
is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo. Sanjeeb was formerly a Teaching Fellow and Commonwealth Scholar at the Warwick Law School, UK, where he completed his doctoral studies in 2018. Sanjeeb did his graduate studies in criminology and criminal justice at the University of Oxford and undergraduate studies in Law at brac University. In the past, Sanjeeb served as Researcher to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunals of Bangladesh. He has presented papers at conferences and workshops organised by Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, Queensland and Koç University.
Md Nazrul Islam
popularly known as Asif Nazrul, is Professor of Law (University of Dhaka), researcher, writer and civil society activist. He did PhD in international law
M Rafiqul Islam
is a Professor Emeritus at Macquarie University, Australia. He obtained ba Honours (Economics), ma (Economics), llb (Rajshahi University, Bangladesh), and llm and PhD (Monash University, Australia). He has researched and published extensively mostly in international law, including: National Trials of International Crimes in Bangladesh: Transitional Justice as Reflected in Judgments (Brill/Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston, 2019); International Law: Current Concepts and Future Directions (LexisNexis Australia, 2014); An Introduction to International Refugee Law (co-editor) (Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden/Boston, 2013); and International Trade Law of the wto (Oxford University Press, 2006). He was awarded the “Outstanding Teacher Award” by Macquarie University in 2000.
Anupam Jha
is Professor of Law, Law Centre-ii, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He secured his ll.m. and PhD from University of Delhi (India) and post-doctoral research experience from University of Kansas (USA) and University of Leeds (UK). He has many publications to his credit in reputed journals, including Asian Journal of International Law (2018). He has received many research awards, including ugc-tec Award to visit Mauritius in 2009. Currently, he is also the Treasurer of Indian Society of International Law. His research interests include international criminal law, Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, and Renewable Energy Law.
Bahzad Joarder
is a post-graduate of University of Birmingham. He currently teaches at the School of Law, University of Warwick. His principal areas of research interest are International Criminal Law and Transnational Criminal Law. He has previously written about genocide, crimes against humanity and the work of the International Criminal Tribunals in Bangladesh. His contributions were published by South Asian Law Discussion Group (saldg), Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, iaps Dialogue Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies,
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 PhD (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), Protection of Minorities: Regimes, Norms and Issues in South Asia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). His recently coedited book publication is: Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2019 (Brill/Nijhoff, 2020).
Win-chiat Lee
is Professor of Philosophy and formerly Chair of the Philosophy Department at Wake Forest University, USA. He grew up in Hong Kong and attended university and graduate school in the US. He holds a ba from Cornell and a PhD from Princeton, both in philosophy. His research interests include philosophy of law and global justice, with the main focus on the philosophy of international criminal law, especially the question of universal jurisdiction. He is currently writing a book on universal jurisdiction and also completing an article, “On the Human Right to a Nationality.”
Silvina Sánchez Mera
is a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, Australia. Her doctoral research focuses on child soldiers at the International Criminal Court and engages with feminist theories. She holds a Master in International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law. She has previously worked as a Lecturer in Public International Law and Human Rights Law in Argentina. Her professional experience also includes working as legal officer at a State Juvenile Court, as a researcher for Defence Counsel at the icty and interned at the eccc. She is a Chevening alumni, member of the Argentinean Association of International Law, and an Endeavour Scholar.
Nakib M. Nasrullah
is a professor of law in the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh. He did llm in international law from the unsw, Australia and MPhil in Law and PhD in
Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman
is a Professor at the Department of Law, University of Dhaka. He received his PhD in criminal law from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research interests include criminal law, legal theories, human rights, and law and society. Muhammad Rahman is currently an elected member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law. He is the author of Criminal Sentencing in Bangladesh: From Colonial Legacies to Modernity (Leiden/Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2017), and co-author of Protection of Minorities: Regimes, Norms and Issues in South Asia (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012).
Sanoj Rajan
is presently appointed as a Distinguished Professor of law at Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou, China. His other academic affiliations are Affiliate, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, Visiting Professor, Indian Society of International Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, and the International Christian University at Kinshasa, Congo. He is widely published which include books, research articles in peer-reviewed journals, book reviews and op-eds. His latest book is International Humanitarian Law in India: A Handbook, Thomson Reuters. He is a Commonwealth Scholar and holds a PhD, llm in International Law, and Mst. in Human Rights (Oxford).
Dawn L. Rothe
is a Full Professor of Criminology at Florida Atlantic University. She is the author or co-author of 11 books, including Crimes of the Powerful: White-Collar Crime; The Violence of Neoliberalism: Crime, Harm and Inequality; Explorations in Critical Criminology: Essays in Honor of William J. Chambliss; Crimes of the Powerful: An Introductory Text and has published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters focused on issues of power, patriarchy, the harms and violence of the powerful, neoliberalism, and inequalities.
PhD in Law, School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), is Chenxing Professor of International Law and Executive Director of the Asian Law Center at the KoGuan School of Law of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the author of The Law of International Humanitarian Relief in Non-International Armed Conflicts (Brill, 2022); Global Governance, Conflict and China (Brill, 2018) and War and Law in the Islamic World (Brill, 2015).