Summary
Dr. M Jashim Ali Chowdhury joined the Hull Law School as a Lecturer in August 2022. At the University of Hull, he teaches Public and European Law , Public International Law, Comparative Law and Administrative Law and Human Rights Protection modules. He also coordinates the Hull Law School's newly initiated Law Review. His research interest includes International Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Comparative Public Law, and South Asian Constitutionalism. Within the School and Faculty level, he works as a Dignity and Respect Adviser, an EDI Champion, and an Impact Lead for the REF 2029 cycle.
Prior to Hull, Dr Chowdhury served in Bangladesh as an Associate Professor (University of Chittagong), Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer (Northern University Bangladesh) and Lecturer in Law (The University of Information Technology and Sciences (UITS) and Metropolitan University).
He has completed his LL.B. (Honours) and LL.M. from the University of Chittagong with First Class First position in both exams. He also holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Law with Distinction from Tulane University, Louisiana, USA. He was awarded his PhD in Law by the King’s College London, UK in 2022. Dr. Chowdhury was nominated for Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Gold Medal (2007) for outstanding results in LL.B. (Honours) and LL.M. at the University of Chittagong. Later, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright (2014) and Commonwealth (2017) scholarships by the US and UK governments, respectively.
Dr Chowdhury has researched and written extensively on constitutional and personal law issues. His articles have been published in the Bangladesh Journal of Law, Chittagong University Journal of Law, Dhaka University Law Journal, Northern University Journal, BRAC University Journal, Metropolitan University Journal, Jagannath University Journal, Jahangirnagar University Law Journal, Rajshahi University Law Journal, Islamic University Journal (Bangladesh), Indian Journal of Constitutional Law, Comparative and Administrative Law Quarterly (India), GLAT Law Review (Tulane, USA), the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law (Canada) and the Asian Yearbook of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law (Netherlands). Dr. Chowdhury has contributed chapters in books published by BILIA (Bangladesh), Chittagong University (Bangladesh), Rutledge (UK), Hart (UK) Springer (Singapore) and Cambridge University Press (USA). His forthcoming book titled "Fifty Years of Bangladesh Parliament: A Critical Evaluation" is being published by the Brill Nijhoff (2025). He has authored four more books - "An Introduction to the Constitutional Law of Bangladesh", "The Law of Evidence: An Easy Reader" (In Bangla), "A Textbook on Muslim Personal Law" and "Comparative Constitutional Law: Issues, Debates and Stories from the US, UK and Indian Jurisdictions". He has contributed over a hundred legal opinion pieces in Bangladesh’s leading national dailies, national and international blogs, student-edited journals, periodicals, etc.
Dr. Chowdhury participated in and presented papers at seminars and conferences in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, India, China, Hong Kong, Kuwait and Bangladesh. Before joining the University of Hull, he established and pioneered the Society for Critical Legal Studies (SCLS), a study and research circle widely known across the Bangladeshi legal academia.