Mohammad Shahabuddin is a Professor of International Law & Human Rights at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK. He specialises in histories and theories of international law and human rights, international law of minority protection, right to self-determination, and ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflicts. His teaching and research is informed by critical, postcolonial, and TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) scholarship. He has published extensively in the areas of his research specialisation. Shahab is the author of Ethnicity and International Law: Histories, Politics and Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Minorities and the Making of Postcolonial States in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021). For the latter, he received the prestigious Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2018-2020). He is also the editor of Bangladesh and International Law (Routledge, 2021). In addition to academic research, Shahab also worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bangladesh as its National Consultant in 2011/12 to conduct compliance studies on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT). These reports have been published by the National Human Rights Commission, Bangladesh, and used for policy reform recommendations to the government.