Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui
October 6, 2023 2024-08-22 6:43Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui
Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (International Law) (JGLS, 2022)
LL.M. (International Law) (SAU, 2013)
P.G. Diploma (International Law and Diplomacy) (ISIL, 2012)
B.A.LL.B. (Hons.) (AMU, 2011)
Dr. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui is Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, India – 131 001 (India). He holds a Ph.D. in International Law from Jindal Global Law School (2022) and is an alumnus of South Asian University (LL.M., 2013), Indian Society of International Law (PG Dip., 2012) and Aligarh Muslim University (B.A.LL.B., 2011). He has been a recipient of South Asian University Scholarship and an awardee of V.K. Krishna Menon Memorial Gold Medal in International Law (2011-2012). Dr. Siddiqui works in the areas of law, identity and religion and has previously taught at Aligarh Muslim University-Murshidabad (2013-2014), West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata (2014-2017), and BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology (2021-2022). He is a Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Law and Religious Affairs (AIMPLB) and Journal of International Law and Comity (Weeramantry Centre). His research works around the themes of plurality of legal imagination, civilizational history of law, religion in public space and Islamic jurisprudence. His PhD Thesis explores the Shari’a Praxis in International Law and argues for a plurality of legal imaginations.
Dr. Siddiqui has presented his works at the 20th Congress of the Brazilian Academy of International Law (August 2022), Asser Institute (2021), Maastricht University (2021), Michigan Junior Scholars Workshop (2021), TWAIL Conference (2015) and World Congress on International Law (2015). His work on inter-subjectivity in international law is due for publication in the Conference Proceedings of the Brazilian Congress (2022). His other article on Islamic Law roots of Common Law is due for publication with Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice (Scopus) (2022). He also contributes to mainstream print media on issues concerning the Muslim identity. Some of his ideas have found space in The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Scroll and First Post.
Dr. Siddiqui is interested in Classical Islamic Theology and is currently reading Al Adab al Mufrad (Morals and Manners in Islam) by Imam Bukhari with Shaykh Abul Lais from India.
Selected Papers:
1. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, Introduction to the Special Issue on ‘Uniform Civil Code and the Future of Muslim Identity in India’ 19 Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice (December 2023) (Forthcoming).
2. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Diya Rajput), ‘Book Review: Giorgio Fabio Colombo: Justice and International Law in Meiji Japan: The María Luz Incident and the Dawn of Modernity, Routledge, 2023. Pp 124. ISBN: 978-1-032-24902-5’, 14 Jindal Global Law Review (2023) (Forthcoming) [2500 words]
3. 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’, 18(1) Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice 8-29 (2022) [14000 words]
4. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Henrique Marcos), ‘The Mainstream and the Intersubjective in International Law: From Objectivity to Imagination’ in Wagner Manezes (Org.), Direito Internacional em Expansao: Estado Da Arte (International Law in Expansion: State of the Art) Vol. XXII, 156-173 (Belo Horizonte: Arraes Editores, 2022) [10000 words]
5. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Muhammad Umar), ‘Incarceration of Muslims during Covid-19 and Judicial Retort in the Indian State of Maharashtra’ 5 Diversity and Social Justice Forum Report 7 (Chapman University Fowler School of Law, United States 2021) (https://bit.ly/3M8TFgS) [9000 words]
6. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘Personal Laws in India: A Theoretical Investigation from the Perspective of Muslim Personal Law’ 1 (1) Journal of Law and Religious Affairs 63 (2021) (Inaugural Issue) (https://bit.ly/3x6L4XB) [5000 words]
7. 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) [15000 words]
8. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Garimella Sai Ramani), ‘The Enforcement of Multi-Tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses: Contemporary Judicial Opinion’, 24(1) International Islamic University Malaysia Law Journal 157 (2016) [14000 words]
Academic Blogs:
1. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Mohammad Imran), ‘Towards Remedying the Transcivilizational Neglect: Revisiting the Story of the Spanish Requerimiento’, TWAILR: Reflections #47/2022 (October 7, 2022) https://bit.ly/3yHMCYu
2. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘Protecting the Illegal Migrant: Some Critical Perspectives from India’, Border Criminologies (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford) (July 15, 2021) https://bit.ly/3kn7nST
Open Editorials:
1. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘”The Politics of Methodology” and the Perils of Implementing UCC in India’, The Quint (18 August 2023) http://bit.ly/3GobGHx
2. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Lavish Dudeja), ‘The Continuing Ambiguities in Postgraduate Legal Education in India’, Bar and Bench (26 January 2023) https://bit.ly/3jPlx1i
3. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘Hijab Ban: Before Court Judges the Practice of a Religion, It Must Understand Tradition of a Faith’, The Scroll (24 September 2022) https://bit.ly/3gYrZ4I
4. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘How the Hindutva Project is Trying to Reconfigure Indian Muslim Identity – And Why it will Falter’, The Scroll (13 February 2022) https://bit.ly/3sGD0cz
5. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui (with Abu Zar Ali), ‘Supreme Court Order Allowing Deportation of Rohingyas Shows that India Hasn’t Shed Partition Baggage’, The Scroll (18 April 2021) https://bit.ly/3zCuBZr
6. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘The Secular Onslaught on the Muslim Public Psyche’, Sabrang India (6 November 2020) https://bit.ly/3oczTbQ
7. Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui, ‘A Muslim Narrative in the Anti-CAA/NRC Protests’, The Indian Express (23 January 2020) https://bit.ly/2XNiTOq
Critical International Law, Religion & Law, Law & Identity, Islamic Law
- Legal Research Methodology
- Public International Law
- Human Rights Law & Theory
- Religion & International Law.