Dr Mohammad Nayyeri
Lecturer in Law

Summary

Dr Mohammad Nayyeri is a Lecturer in Law in the Public and International Law Division at Brunel Law School.

Mohammad gained his PhD in Law in 2020 at King’s College London. His thesis focused on the role of international legal practice in theorising human rights and engaged with general legal theories and contemporary philosophical approaches to human rights.

Having previously studied law in Iran up to PhD level and qualified as Attorney at Law, he was awarded a Chevening Scholarship from the British Council and studied an LLM in Human Rights at Birkbeck, University of London. He also obtained a Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) at the University of Westminster.

Before joining Brunel, Mohammad worked as Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent and held visiting positions at the London School of Economics (LSE) and King’s College London where he taught a range of classes on public law, EU law, property law and jurisprudence. He also worked as Legal Advisor and Senior Associate at the University of Essex Human Rights in Iran Unit.

More recently, Mohammad held fellowships at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg.

Mohammad has extensive experience of working with NGOs and has had conduct of cases and representations before international bodies and mechanisms including the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, and national bodies including National Contact Points (NCPs) in business and human rights cases.

Mohammad has been accepted by various judicial authorities including the UK’s Courts and tribunals as an independent legal expert able to give opinion on legal issues and conditions relating to Iranian law and in asylum and immigration cases. He is also recognised and listed as a country expert by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA).

Mohammad has also been instructed as an independent expert by leading law firms across the UK, Canada, US, Australia, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands and produced numerous expert reports which he has presented to various courts, most recently regarding the recognition and enforcement of a major arbitral award before the Hague Court of Appeal and the High Court in London.

Qualifications

Responsibility

• Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research and PhD Programmes
• Assistant Undergraduate Dissertation Tutor
• Convenor of Business and Human Rights
• Co-convenor of the Law of the European Union
• Co-director of the ‘Migration, Asylum & Law’ research group