Professor A F M Maniruzzaman, LLB (Honours) (first class first), LLM (first class first) (DU), M.Int’L.Law (ANU) (distinction), PhD (Cambridge), MED/C (Harvard), MCIArb, FRSA. He is Chair Professor in International and Business Law, University of Portsmouth Law School, UK (since 2004) and a member of the Centre for Blue Governance, the Centre for European and International Studies Research, and the Centre for Innovative and Sustainable Finance (CISF). He served as the Director of Research and Postgraduate Research Degrees in Law, University of Portsmouth Business School (2004-2013). He also taught at the University of Kent, U.K. as a Lecturer & Senior Lecturer in Law (1993-2004) and at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Professor Maniruzzaman has acted as a Tribunal Chairman / arbitrator, counsel and expert / consultant in multi-million-dollar international arbitrations (including some high-profile ICSID, ICC, and IICRA cases). As an arbitrator, he has been involved in international arbitration on Islamic finance amongst others. He is an Honorary Fellow of the International Islamic Centre for Reconciliation and Arbitration (IICRA), Dubai.

He also acted as an International Legal Consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat (HQ), London, governments, state-owned enterprises, multinational corporations and multinational law firms (including of the Magic Circle). He served as the Honorary Special Adviser (constitutional & international legal matters) to the Honourable President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (1996-2001).

He is also a Harvard trained mediator & negotiator (Harvard Law School – Program on Negotiation), and attained mediation certificates from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London.

He is currently editing a Special Issue of Transnational Dispute Management on Islamic Finance and Dispute Resolution: https://www.transnational-dispute-management.com/news.asp?key=1832

He has supervised (leading to the award of the PhD degree) and examined PhD theses on Saudi Law, Islamic Law / Shari’ah and Islamic International Law in various British universities over decades. Some of them can be cited as follows:

1. “International project financing in uncertain business environments: a case study of upstream oil and gas projects with particular emphasis on Islamic financing” (2022, University of Portsmouth, U.K.)
2. "The Saudi Legislative Approach and Judicial Attitude Towards the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Agreements and Awards" (PhD 2022, School of Oriental and African Studies / SOAS, University of London, U.K.).
3. “Principles of International Commercial Arbitration and Islamic Finance Contracts: An Exploration in a Process of Two-Way Dynamic Convergence” (PhD 2018, University of Dundee, U.K.).
4. “The role of Competition Law in the Telecommunications Sector in Saudi Arabia” (PhD 2018, Brunel University, U.K.).
5. “A Critical Analysis of Investor Protection under Saudi Stock Market Regulations” (PhD 2017, University of Essex, U.K.).
6. “The WTO Anti-Dumping and Anti-Subsidy Agreements and Saudi Arabia’s Petrochemical Products” (PhD 2014, Brunel University, U.K.).
7. The Legal Impacts and Challenges Facing Saudi Foreign Direct Investment Law: Reforming Saudi Foreign Direct Investment Laws as a Case Study” (PhD 2012, University of Portsmouth, U.K.).
8. “Court Intervention in Commercial Arbitral Proceedings in Saudi Arabia: Comparative Analytical Study of Shari’ah Based Statutes and International Arbitral Practices” (2011, University of Portsmouth, U.K.).
9. “The Protection of the Marine Environment from Oil Pollution by Ships in the Arabian Gulf and the Role of Saudi Arabia: A Study in International Law with Special Reference to Islamic law” (2009, University of Portsmouth, U.K.).
10. “Economic Siyar: An Islamic Perspective of International Economic Law” (2005, University of Manchester, U.K.).
11. “The Iraqi Invasion Of Kuwait And The Legality of Its Claims In International Law And Islamic International Law”(1997, University of Kent, U.K.)

For more information, see: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/munir-maniruzzaman