Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan
is a Humboldt research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Germany and an Associate Professor at the Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, UK; Cardiff University, UK; Emory University, USA; and University of British Columbia, Canada. He holds a PhD in law from the University of Queensland, Australia and an LLM from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He has co-edited Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism: A 21st Century Perspective (Brill, 2022), Human Rights and International Criminal Law (Brill, 2022), Law and Religion in the Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2020), Revisiting the Geneva Conventions: 1949–2019 (Brill, 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, 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, 2010), and International Humanitarian Law – An Anthology (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2009), amongst other scholarly books.
Carla M. Zoethout
is professor of Constitutional law, Open University, the Netherlands (and head of the department of Constitutional law and Jurisprudence) and associate professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Previously, she was a lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Leiden University and the Free University at Amsterdam. Her research areas include: comparative constitutional law and human rights (in particular the freedom of religion). Recent publications in English: ‘A New Bill of Rights for the UK, Two courts, two “masters”?’, www.iconnectblog.com (2022); ‘Should the Courts Accommodate Religion in the Workplace? The Secular Nature of Europe’s Legal Order and the Role of Supranational Courts’, in: Jasper Doomen, Mirjam van Schaik (eds.), Religious Ideas in Liberal Democratic States, Lexington Books 2021; ‘How to Deal with Religion in the Increasingly Pluralistic European Societies: The European Court of Human Rights on Crucifixes, Face-covering Veils and Disparaging Muhammad’, in: Md Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan and Darryn Jensen (eds.), Law and Religion in the Liberal State, Hart Publishing, 2020 and ‘Populist Resistance against the European Liberal Democratic Order’, Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Vol 3, 2020.