Dr Mohammad Ali Sabuj LLB, LLM, BPTC, PhD, FHEA

Senior Lecturer in Law

Mohammad is a Senior Lecturer. He is a property law barrister and the author of ‘Essential Land Law for SQE 1 (Routledge, 2023)’. Previously he worked at Northumbria Law School and Cardiff Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Mohammad’s research interest is aligned with Property law, International law, Comparative citizenship law, Islamic law, and Jurisprudence.

Law

Responsibilities within the university

Teaching Land law and International law

Awards

Recognition
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Member of the Bar Council of England and Wales
  • Governor of the King’s Group Academies
  • Member of the British Society of Middle Eastern Studies

Research / Scholarly interests

Land law, Islamic law, Citizenship law, and International law

Key funded projects

British Academy Small Research Grant 2021

Media activity

Invited interview by Bloomberg Daybreak Europe on ‘Liberal Intervention: The West in Afghanistan’, (20 August 2021).

Recent publications

Sabuj M., Essential Land Law for SQE 1 (Routledge, 2023).

Sabuj M, The Legitimacy of Use of Force in Public and Islamic international law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Presentations
  • The Legitimacy of Use of Force in Public and Islamic International Law in the 21st Century -Invited talk delivered at the Mofid University, Iran (2 March 2024).
  • Universalism versus Cultural relativism: The Place of Islamic Shari ‘a in Maldivian Legal System – Symposium on International Law and Maldives Navigating Geopolitics, Trade and Sovereignty, Faculty of Shariah and Law, Villa College, Maldives (21 December 2023).
  • The Right to Citizenship of Rohingya Children Born in Mixed Marriages: Research Findings of the British Academy Research Project – Keynote speaker, Department of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh (6 August 2023).
  • Human Trafficking of Domestic workers: Lessons learned from the UK Supreme Court Case Basfar v Wong – Second International Workshop on Combating Human Trafficking, Ministry of Interior, Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (5 – 6 September 2023).
  • Colonial Legacies in British Nationality Law - The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2022, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, UK (6th September 2022).
  • The Protection of Stateless Persons in South Asia under International Law: A Generalist Approach – The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) Annual Conference 2021, Durham, UK (2nd September 2021).
  • An Introduction to Research Integrity – Invited talk given to the Syrian Academics in Exile on 1 July 2021. The talk was organised by an international NGO, Cara Syria.
  • Publishing your research: Selecting suitable journal for Publication, understanding the author guidelines, and the peer review process – Invited talk given to the Syrian Academics in Exile on 15 April 2021. The talk was organised by an international NGO, Cara Syria.
  • Armed Conflict in the 21st Century: The Legal Political Legacies – Invited talk given at the School of Law, Northern University Bangladesh (International) in July 2020.
  • The Legitimacy of Use of force in Islamic International law: The Legal and Political Legacies - Disentangling the Relationship between Religion and Law 2020, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway.
  • The Legitimacy of Use of Force in International Law: A Socio-Legal Factor for Higher Pull of Compliance – Early Careers Conference 2017, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (9-10 June 2018).