Dr. Nafees Ahmad is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Legal Studies, South Asian University (SAU)-New Delhi with 27 years of experience of research and teaching LL.M, LL.B, MA, M.Phil, Ph.D, and PGD Programs. Formerly he trained Trainee Ambassadors of United Arab Emirates (UAE) & taught at the AG Diplomatic Academy of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Govt. of UAE, Abu Dhabi. He earned his Doctorate in International Refugee Law and Human Rights. His scholarship focuses on RAMS (Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Migrants, Stateless) and the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their protection, Global Forced Displacement, Global Circumstantial Migration (GCM) Governance and Climate Refugees in South Asia. He also addresses the International Politics of Asylum, Refugee Policy Paradigms, Invisible Frames of Asylum, Disconnects of Durable Solutions and SAARC connects and contexts of refugee protection. He conceived and introduced a new SAARC-specific Program in 2011 called Comparative Constitutional Law of SAARC Nations (CCLSAARCN), International Media Law in 2021 and Artificial Intelligence and The Law in 2024 at the LLM level respectively. He publishes inter-alia in the Groningen Journal of International Law (The Netherlands), Harvard International Law Journal, Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Rights and Law (Brill), International Journal of Environment and Waste Management (Geneva) indexed in SCOPUS, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (Brill), Kings’ Student Law Review (King’s College London), ISIL Year Book on International Humanitarian Law and Refugee Law, and ELCOP Year Book of Human Rights-Dhaka and NUJS International Journal of Legal Studies and Research (IJLSR), Springer etc. Dr. Ahmad has co-authored a book on Climate Refugees in South Asia (2019) Springer. Dr Ahmad has co-edited a book on "Climate-related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Rights-based Approaches (Springer 2024) Dr. Ahmad is also an active blogger, writer, poet and Op-Ed contributor to many international digital platforms in the fields of Refugee Research, Forced Population Transfer, IRL, IHRL, IHL, Digital International Relations and Diplomacy etc. Dr. Ahmad has been a Resource Person and External Reviewer for the Ministry of Law; Government of India-sponsored Research Project on Judicial Reforms since 2016 at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM-Kashipur). Further, he has been a visiting professor at the Indian Society of International Law (ISIL), Jamia Milia Islamia-New Delhi and Judicial Academies of various states of India. Dr. Ahmad specialises in CCLSAARCN, IRL-FMS-CiDD-DHD, Int.'Law & Diplo, IHRL-CHRL-IHL, AI & Law, RBIO-UBIO, G4P4, GIL-NIL, S2P-IPS-Diplo, Geoprudence, Technoprudence, etc. Dr. Ahmad has also been delivering lectures to the Armed Forces’ sensitization programmes on IHRL, IHL and ICL. Dr. Ahmad organized and conducted the Online Short Term (OST) Course on "Artificial Intelligence & The Law" on July 21-31, 2024 for Judges, Civil Servants, Advocates and Academics. He serves on many committees and editorial boards of many international journals and magazines. Dr. Ahmad has been serving since 2010 as Senior Visiting Faculty to national and international research institutions. He is available #24X7 at: drnafeesahmad@sau.ac.in
Dr. Ahmad conceived, developed, introduced and teaching the following subjects at the FLS-SAU:
Climate-related Human Mobility in Asia and the Pacific: Interdisciplinary Rights-based Approaches (Springer 2024) https://link.springer.com/book/9789819732333
Legal Aspects of Business: Cases For Classroom Instructions (2023)
Climate Refugees in South Asia (Springer 2019) https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811331367