Professor Abu Zayed Mohammad is the Head of the Laws at the Department of Law and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at City University. Professor Mohammad is one of the leading academic luminaries in the field of the study of Law in Bangladesh. With an academic career spanning over two decades, he has served in various capacities in some of the top legal education providers of the country. Prior to his joining City University, Professor Mohammad was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Northern University Bangladesh. In his tenure as an academic leader, he has also served as the Chairman of the Department of Law and Human Rights at the University of Development Alternative. Moreover, Professor Mohammad is well known for his acumen and discretion in maintaining discipline for ensuring a safe, secure and education-friendly environment on-campus. He has served as the Proctor of Northern University Bangladesh and is currently the Proctor of City University as well. Professor Mohammad has been serving as an External Examiner at the Department of Law, University of Dhaka for a number of years. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Bangladesh Organization for Learning & Development (BOLD), the apex national platform for creating human Capital in Bangladesh.

 

As an academic, Professor Mohammad has extensive teaching and learning experience in specialized legal domains of; Strategy, Governance andn the Law, Legal System of Bangladesh, Human Rights, Not-for-Profit Law, Environmental Law and Policy, Regulation of Non-renewable Energy Resources, Criminology, Law and Development, Consumer Rights, Constitutional Law, International Air and Aviation Law, Public Interest Law, International Humanitarian Law, and Children in Conflict with the Law. He has previously taught at the North South University, University of Asia Pacific, Daffodil International University, to name a few, in addition to his academic leadership (and teaching) positions mentioned earlier. Professor Mohammad’s research career spans longer than his pursuits in teaching in higher education. With a humble beginning by writing for his college journal in 1987, his research and perspectives have received wide national and international acclaim over a period stretching over thirty-five years. Professor Mohammad has been instrumental in the study of Terrorism in Bangladesh and has contributed to the books entitled A Study on the Religion-based Violent Extremism in Northern Bangladesh (RAB Forces Headquarters, Bangladesh Police, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, Dhaka, July, 2019) and the treatise on Local Drivers and Dynamics of Youth Radicalization in Bangladesh (Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies, Dhaka, 16 November, 2017). He is one of the distinguished authors of two of the Asian Development Bank’s phenomenal volumes on Legal Empowerment; Legal Empowerment for Women and Disadvantaged Groups (Asian Development Bank and The Asia Foundation, Manila, The Philippines, January, 2009) and Good Practices Guide for Incorporating Legal Empowerment into Operations (Asian Development Bank and The Asia Foundation, Manila, The Philippines, January, 2009). Professor Mohammad’s chapter on the relationship between the Law and Political Violence has been published by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in the book Beyond Hartals: Towards Democratic Dialogue in Bangladesh (UNDP, Bangladesh, March, 2005), remains one of the most distinct critical enquiries on Political Violence in South Asia. His paper “Voice, Demand and Accountability: The Experience of Transparency International in Bangladesh” was a basis for writing the World Bank’s flagship publication; The World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for the Poor. Professor Mohammad has been the distinguished Research Expert for the Rapid Action Battalion Headquarters, Bangladesh Police, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and continues his work on Human Security as a Senior Research Fellow at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS). Professor Mohammad was educated at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh; The University of Melbourne, Australia and at the Hamburg University, Germany. He is an enrolled Advocate on the rolls of Bangladesh Bar Council and is also eligible for practicing before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.