Fahim Abrar Abid

Fahim Abrar Abid is a Public International Lawyer from Bangladesh. He is the Founder of the Bangladesh Society of International Law and an Erasmus Mundus Scholar in International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development at the University of Glasgow (UK), IBEI-Barcelona (Spain), and the University of Tartu (Estonia), specialising in human rights and international law.

Fahim has authored 10+ articles and book chapters published by Oxford University Press, Harvard International Law Journal, Cambridge International Law Journal, the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Brill), Routledge, Springer, and Sage. As a practitioner, he has provided expert opinions in 15+ cases before the UK Immigration and Asylum Tribunals and the US Citizenship and Immigration Services. He has also advised the University of London Refugee Law Clinic twice.

Fahim is the Managing Editor of the Bangladesh Blog of International Law, a Rapporteur of Oxford International Organizations, the Country Contributor (Spain) for the Oxford Yearbook of International Environmental Law, a Board Member of the Poliscope Institute Think Tank, and an Editor of the University of Tartu Journal of International Law and Human Rights. Previously, he worked as the Coordinator of the Bangladesh Campaign at Global Human Rights Defence (the Netherlands), and held academic roles at the Global Campus of Human Rights (Italy), the University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), and the Open Society University Network (USA).

A High Distinction graduate of BRAC University (Bangladesh), Fahim has also received diplomas and specialised training in public international law, critical theory, conflict-related sexual violence and human trafficking, genocide and justice, and civic engagment from LMU Munich (Germany), Birkbeck, University of London (UK), Tilburg University (the Netherlands), Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh), and Central European University (Austria & Hungary).

Fahim has attended international conferences at NATO CCDCOE (Estonia), Harvard University, Cambridge University, and Durham University. He is a distinguished member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Fahim has received multiple research awards and excelled in international moot court competitions. A committed public educator, he regularly offers lectures and pro bono academic mentorship through his personal website, having contributed over 3,000 minutes to students from the Global South.