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Fahim Abrar

Board Member

Fahim Abrar Abid is the Founder of the Bangladesh Society of International Law and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar of International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development at the University of Glasgow (UK), Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacional (Spain) and the University of Tartu (Estonia) — specialising in human rights. As an aspiring International Lawyer, his research on international law, human rights, criminal law, environmental law and AI has been published in Harvard International Law Journal, Cambridge International Law Journal, Asian Yearbook of International Law (Brill), Springer, Sage, Routledge, Bloomsbury and Oxford Human Rights Hub with forthcoming publications in journals of Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press, and the European Yearbook on Human Rights. He is the Country Contributor of Spain for the Yearbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press) and a member of the IUCN and IAGS. He is also an Editor of University of Tartu Journal of International Law and Human Rights and the Bangladesh Blog of International Law. In addition, he serves as a Reviewer for multiple international journals. Previously, he worked as the Coordinator of the Bangladesh Campaign at Global Human Rights Defence (Netherlands), and in academic roles at the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), Open Society University Network (USA). Fahim is a Country Expert at the Electronic Immigration Network (UK) and has provided expert opinions to the UK Immigration and Asylum Tribunal, University of London Refugee Law Clinic, and US Immigration and Citizenship Service. He is currently editing a book Bangladesh, International Law and Security in post-July 2024 (Springer).