Congratulations to Dr Cynthia Farid on being awarded a Global Young Academy (GYA) membership

Congratulations to Dr Cynthia Farid (Global Academic Fellow) who has been admitted as a Global Young Academy (GYA) member representing Bangladesh for a five-years term!

  Under the leadership of Menattallah Elserafy (Zewail City of Science and Technology, Egypt) the 53-member Selection Committee of the Global Young Academy (GYA) finalised the selection of 41 new members to join the GYA in June 2023 for a tenure of five years. The GYA’s new member cohort includes representatives from 31 individual countries, covering all GYA general disciplines, and includes 16 females, 1 non-binary and 24 males. In June 2023 when the new cohort is inducted, the gender ratio will be 104 female/93 male/2 non-binary/1 no information given. Such gender balance is a development that the GYA has been moving towards for the last few years and is a reflection of the excellent female/non-binary applicants to the GYA. Among other activities, the GYA acts as a facilitator and convenor for the growing global network of National Young Academies (NYAs). The GYA is therefore delighted to see that a number of new members are also members of – or in leadership positions in – their respective country’s NYA.

      By this opportunity, Dr Cynthia Farid perceives that being part of GYA will be a great network for interdisciplinary research, which could help connect to a lot of global opportunities.  This will give her an edge in global outlook of her legal research career. Dr Farid's research interests include Constitutional Law, Legal History, Law and Society, Human Rights, Law and Development.  To view her profile on the Global Young Academy (GYA) webpage, click here. 

Welcome to HKU Law's Global Academic Fellow Dr Cynthia Farid

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.