Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui

Teaching

Education

Work Experience

Research

Research Interests

• Theory and Philosophy of International Law
• History of International Law
• Islamic Law (Shari’a) / Islamic International Law / Muslim Personal Law
• Law, Identity and Religion
• Legal and Political Theory

Publications

Research Articles

• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Abu Zar Ali), ‘Could Common Law have Islamic Roots? Testing John Makdisi’s Hypothesis in the Light of Section 6 of the Indian Specific Relief Act, 1963’, JOURNAL OF INDIAN LAW AND SOCIETY, NUJS (under review) (14000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Ranjan Rai), ‘The Disaster Governance Model in South Asia: Some Positive Reflections’, Book Chapter, UNTITLED BOOK, NLIU-Bhopal (forthcoming 2022) (5000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘Personal Laws in India: A Theoretical Investigation from the Perspective of Muslim Personal Law’, JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS, AIMPLB (India) (Inaugural Issue) (Forthcoming 2021) (5000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Mohammad Umar), ‘Incarceration of Muslims during Covid-19 and Judicial Retort in the Indian State of Maharashtra’ 5 DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FORUM REPORT (Chapman University Fowler School of Law, United States) 7 (2021) (9000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘Why Citizenship Matters? Some Observations on the CAA and NRC in India’, 3(3) SOCIETY FOR CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES LAW REVIEW 16 (2020) (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh) (8000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Dabiru Sridhar Patnaik), ‘Problems of Refugee Protection in International Law: An Assessment through the Rohingya Refugee Crisis in India’, 14(1) SOCIO-LEGAL REVIEW 1 (2018) (NLSIU Bangalore, India) (15000 words) [Google Scholar Citations – 4; Included in the Delhi University Curriculum on Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law (2021)]
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Garimella Sai Ramani), ‘The Enforcement of Multi-Tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses: Contemporary Judicial Opinion’ (14000 words) 24(1) INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA LAW JOURNAL 157 (2016) (International Islamic University, Malaysia) (14000 words) [Google Scholar Citations – 4]
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, Chapter on: Elimination of Racial Discrimination, prepared as part of Course Module on ‘International Human Rights Law’, Online LL.M. Course, E-Pathshala, An MHRD Project under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT), Government of India (2016) (4000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Abhinav Kumar Shukla and Shivam Patanjali), ‘Law Students as Change Agents: Imagination, Ideas and the Construction of Reality’ in CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST “BELT AND ROAD” LAW SCHOOL STUDENT FORUM (China University of Political Science and Law: Changping Campus, Beijing, China) (December 7-8, 2017) (5000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Mohammad Ashraf Ali), ‘Islam and International Law – A Quranic Perspective Towards a Peaceful Reconciliation’ in CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL SEMINAR ON PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE IN MULTI-CULTURAL SOCIETIES: THE QURANIC PERSPECTIVE (Centre for Quranic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University) (2014) (6000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘The Plurality of Constitutive Imaginations and the Multiverse of International Law: A Brief Sketch’ (Working Paper) (25000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Henry Marcos), ‘Towards Redefining the “International” in International Law’ (Working Paper) (5000 words)
• Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Nithin Ramakrishnan), ‘Untying the Gordian Knot: International Law of Cooperation and the Fate of Global Health’ (Working Note) (1500 words)

International Conferences / Seminars / Workshops

• PAPER PRESENTATION: The Plurality of Constitutive Imagination and the Future of Critical Method in International Law: A Proposal, WORKSHOP ON METHOD, METHODOLOGY AND CRITIQUE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, ASSER INSTITUTE: CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAW, NETHERLANDS (online) (December 15-18, 2021)
• PAPER PRESENTATION (with Tarique Faiyaz): Could the Legal Discourse of Fatwa fill the ‘Critical’ Gap in the International Legal Argument? A Brief Exploration, NARRATIVES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP, MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY, NETHERLANDS (online) (May 20, 2021)
• PAPER PRESENTATION (with Shaheen Qureshi): Attempting Solutions to the ‘Critical’ Challenge to International Law: Fatwa as a Carrier of International Legal Discourse, SEVENTH ANNUAL JUNIOR SCHOLARS CONFERENCE 2021, MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL, UNITED STATES (online) (April 16-17, 2021)
• PAPER PRESENTATION: Global Value Chains’ (GVC’s) Tryst with International Law: An Exploration, Shaping the Business and Human Agenda of the Next Decade – INAUGURAL ASIA AND OCEANIA BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM, RMIT BUSINESS & HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE AND THE PUBLIC LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS FORUM OF CITY UNIVERSITY HONG KONG (online) (February 3-4 & 9, 2021)
• INVITED LECTURE: ‘Why Citizenship Matters: a Constitutional and International Law Perspective on the Indian CAA and NRC’, SOCIETY FOR CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG, BANGLADESH (online) (July 19, 2020)
• PAPER PRESENTATION (with Abhinav Kumar Shukla and Shivam Patanjali): ‘Law Students as Change Agents: Imagination, Ideas and the Construction of Reality’ at CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST “BELT AND ROAD” LAW SCHOOL STUDENT FORUM, CHINA UNIVERSITY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW: CHANGPING CAMPUS, BEIJING, CHINA (December 7-8, 2017)
• INVITED PARTICIPANT: JOINT CONFERENCE: CONSTITUTIONALISM, RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: AUSTRALIAN AND INDIAN PERSPECTIVES (The Centre for India Australia Studies, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University and University of New South Wales-Law School (November 12, 2017)
• INVITED ATTENDEE: THE PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION INDIA CONFERENCE (Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague and Ministry of External A?airs, Government of India, Pravasi Bhartiya Kendra, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi) (October 7, 2017)
• PAPER PRESENTATION: Decoding the Islamic Perceptions of Christianized International Law Through Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL I and TWAIL II) at THIRD WORLD APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW CONFERENCE: ON PRAXIS AND THE INTELLECTUAL, THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, CAIRO, EGYPT (February 21-24, 2015) [received full funding]
• PAPER PRESENTATION: The Troubled Perception of International Law in the Muslim World: Solutions for Discontent at CONTEMPORARY ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: WORLD CONGRESS ON INTERNATIONAL LAW, INDIAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, NEW DELHI (January 9-11, 2015)

National Conferences / Seminars / Workshops

• PROGRAMME COORDINATOR: ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL LAW: A LECTURE SERIES (Weeramantry Centre for Peace, Justice and International Law and Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth). There are 10 lectures in total to be delivered (October 2020-September 2021)
• PROGRAMME COORDINATOR: JINDAL-STANFORD JOINT PROGRAMME ON GLOBAL POVERTY, CORRUPTION AND THE LAW: INDIA FIELD STUDY (Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University and Stanford Law School, Stanford University, US) (March 24-31, 2018)
• INVITED LECTURE: The Role of International Law in the Construction of Minority Identity in India, ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN RESEARCH SCHOLARS, INDIA (online) (July 15, 2021)
• INTERACTIVE SESSION: Undergraduate and Graduate law students on ‘Learning International Law – Relevance and Methodology’, KERALA LAW ACADEMY, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA (January 06, 2017)
• INVITED SPEAKER: Colloquium Panel on Learning International Law in South: The Relevance, Methodology and Prospects, GOVERNMENT LAW COLLEGE, THRISSUR IN COLLABORATION WITH ASSOCIATION OF ATTENDEES AND ALUMNI OF THE HAGUE ACADEMY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW – INDIA CHAPTER (January 03, 2017)