Mohammad Shahabuddin (Shahab) is a Professor of International Law & Human Rights at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, UK. He specialises in international law and human rights, international law of minority protection, right to self-determination, and ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflicts. His teaching and research are informed by critical, postcolonial, decolonial, and Third World approaches to international law. He has published extensively in the areas of his research specialisation. Shahab is the author of two groundbreakingly monographs on minorities: 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 has also authored numerous journal articles, including 'Decolonising Minority Rights Discourse' (2023). 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 (C AT). He was also an Expert Panellist at the 14th and 15th sessions of the UN Human Rights Council's Forum on Minority Issues in 2021 and 2022. Shahab is an editorial board member of Asian Journal of International Law and an advisory board member of the Tom Lantos Institute.