Mostafa Haider is a Lecturer at the Law School of Curtin University. Mostafa completed his PhD in global law and politics at the University of Sydney and held a residential fellowship at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. He also holds an LLB (Hons) and LLM, both first class, from the University of Chittagong and an LLM with distinction from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Mostafa’s research interests lie in international law, political economy, social movement and global governance. His research particularly seeks to insert the knowledge and power of ‘people’ – beyond citizens, experts and population – into international law narratives. Drawing on a series of interviews with poor women in rural Bangladesh, his doctoral thesis has explored how inequality as a global phenomenon gets regularized through a set of legal and normative techniques. He is currently working on two new projects, one on the bargaining power of weak actors in global value chains and another on the management of humanitarian crises in international law.
Mostafa has taught undergraduate courses in international law, private law, and jurisprudence. At Curtin, he teaches public international law and introductory units in tort and contract. He came to Curtin from Flinders University, where he coordinated introduction to torts (jointly with a colleague) and the Flinders law research seminar series. Formerly a Lecturer at BRAC Law School, he practiced briefly with the law firm of Dr Kamal Hossain & Associates in Dhaka and was admitted as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
Mostafa’s research interests lie in international law, political economy, social movement and global governance. His research particularly seeks to insert the knowledge and power of ‘people’ – beyond citizens, experts and population – into international law narratives. Drawing on a series of interviews with poor women in rural Bangladesh, his doctoral thesis has explored how inequality as a global phenomenon gets regularized through a set of legal and normative techniques. He is currently working on two new projects, one on the bargaining power of weak actors in global value chains and another on the management of humanitarian crises in international law.
Mostafa has taught undergraduate courses in international law, private law, and jurisprudence. At Curtin, he teaches public international law and introductory units in tort and contract. He came to Curtin from Flinders University, where he coordinated introduction to torts (jointly with a colleague) and the Flinders law research seminar series. Formerly a Lecturer at BRAC Law School, he practiced briefly with the law firm of Dr Kamal Hossain & Associates in Dhaka and was admitted as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.