Ifran Hossain Mollah

Graduate Research Assistant

Human Rights, Social Justice, and Constitution

Md Al Ifran Hossain Mollah is a first year doctoral student in sociology at George Mason University and a Senior Lecturer (currently on study leave) at the School of Law, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). He holds LL.B. (Honors) and LL.M. degrees from the University of Dhaka and an MSc in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford. His research interests include human rights, social justice, constitutionalism, and political sociology.

His articles and book chapters have been published by leading academic presses, including Routledge, Brill-Nijhoff, Springer, and Cambridge University Press. Mr. Mollah has served as a consultant for Article19 Bangladesh and South Asia, Plan International, Free Press Unlimited (Netherlands), and the U.S. Department of Justice on issues ranging from gender diversity and freedom of expression to criminal prosecution. He is also a licensed (non-practicing) attorney before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. In his future research, he intends to investigate why legal systems often fail to function effectively in developing communities and what social, political, or institutional factors drive this dysfunction.

Selected Publications

Khan, Borhan Uddin, and Md Al Ifran Hossain Mollah. 2024. “Harmonising Human Rights and Religion: State-Religion Identification in a Changing World.” Pp. 429–447 in Human Rights after 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, edited by B. U. Khan and M. J. H. Bhuiyan. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff.

Khan, Borhan Uddin, and Md Al Ifran Hossain Mollah. 2023. “Protection Through Constitutional Guarantees: The Case of Women, Children, and Backward Sections of the People.” Pp. 213–228 in The Constitutional Law of Bangladesh: Progression and Transformation at Its 50th Anniversary, Springer Nature Singapore.

Education

MSc in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford (2017-2019)

Bachelor of Laws (Honors) and Master of Laws, University of Dhaka (2006-2011)