Welcome to Dr Cynthia Farid who joined the Faculty of Law as a Global Academic Fellow. Dr Farid is a legal historian and a lawyer with
longstanding experience in research, legal practice as well as a range of
international development and rule of law programming with INGOs, think tanks,
and legal rights organizations. Having completed her bar in the United Kingdom and
Bangladesh, she graduated with advanced degrees from Cornell Law School (LLM)
and the University of Wisconsin Law School (SJD).
Prior to joining HKU Law as a Global
Academic Fellow in 2022, Dr Farid was practicing as an Advocate of the Supreme
Court of Bangladesh and had been working with the Human Rights Forum
Bangladesh, a coalition of 20 human rights NGOs, to support its engagement with
the United Nations Committee against Torture and the Universal Periodic Review. She is also a member of Gray's Inn, London.
Dr Farid’s research interests include socio-legal history,
constitutional and administrative law, law and development (with a focus on
South Asia), and knowledge production processes in the Global South. She is
also the organizer of two International Research Collaboratives of the Law and
Society Association on South Asian Legal Systems and Scholars in the Global
South respectively, that have brought together scholars from around the globe
to work on collaborative projects.
Dr Farid has published in a number of international
journals and has secured a book contract with Hart Publishing in its
“Constitutional Systems of the World” series for a co-authored book titled The
Constitution of Bangladesh: A Contextual Analysis with an anticipated
publication date of 2023. As a Global Academic Fellow, she plans to expand on and
publish her doctoral research (titled “Imperial Constitutionalism: Judicial
Politics in Colonial India (1861-1935)”) into a book-length monograph.
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