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Mr Mohammad Golam Sarwar

Positions held:
  • Associate Lecturer A, Birkbeck Law School
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Mohammad Golam Sarwar is a law researcher and academic with 10 years of working experience, particularly focusing on law and development, international and environmental law, business and human rights, Just transition and climate justice, sustainable investment, and SDGs. Mr. Sarwar is an Assistant Professor of Law (on Study leave) at the University of Dhaka. He is currently pursuing PhD in Climate Law and Alternative Development at SOAS University of London as a Commonwealth Scholar. He also works as a Research Assistant and Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) at SOAS. 

    Additional to his extensive research experience, he is also experienced in drafting and reviewing laws and policies; conducting workshops; and coordinating consultations with government and civil society. Mr. Sarwar has previously worked with UNDP, UN WOMEN, UNRCO, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNODC, European Union, ILO, IDLO, and National Human Rights Commission Bangladesh.

    He has experience of drafting State Party reports under International Human Rights Treaties for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bangladesh.   He worked as a legal consultant for the University of Oxford under a project on clean river policy in urban Asia. He provided editorial support to the Law & Our Rights page of The Daily Star for more than ten years.

    He has published a good number of research articles in peer reviewed journals and books published by ROUTLEDGE, SPRINGER NATURE and BRILL- Nijhoff on various aspects of international law, environmental law, climate justice, constitution and human rights. Mr. Sarwar holds a master’s degree in International Development Law and Human Rights from University of Warwick, UK, with Chevening Scholarship.

    He can be reached at: sarwar.law@du.ac.bd

    Highlights

    • Law Interview
      Climate negotiations should be grounded in decolonisation and global justice

      https://www.thedailystar.net/law-our-rights/news/climate-negotiations-should-be-grounded-decolonisation-and-global-justice-3482921

    • Recent Article 

      Climate Change Considerations through the Environment Protection Lens in Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS): Addressing the Challenges

      https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/about-author-a-z-profile.asp?key=3855

    Qualifications

    • LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights, University of Warwick

    Web profiles

    Professional memberships

    • Member, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law 

      Member, The Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment

      Member, Global South Network 

    Honours and awards

    • Commonwealth Doctoral Schoalrship, British Government's Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, January 2021
    • Chevening Scholarship, British Government's FCDO, January 2015
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • law and development, international and environmental law, business and human rights, Just transition and climate justice, sustainable investment, and SDGs.
  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Environmental Law (Level 5, 15 credits) (LALW025H5)