Mahmoud Masud

Mahmoud Masud, prior to pursuing his passion in academia, had over 13 years of proven record in the public and the private sectors. In 2015, Mahmoud completed his LLB in International Law, completed his LLM in Law in 2016 and, currently, near completing his PhD in Law.

Mahmoud started his teaching career in 2017. Since, in addition to supervising dissertations and national work placements at UG and PG levels, he has been involved in leading and teaching on a number of legal topics in the law school (and cross-faculties), including (but not limited to) Equity and Trust, Land Law, Legal Method II, Nature of Law, Academic and Career Development and Business Law (which includes Contract Law, Tort Law, Company Law, Partnership and Agency, Employment Law, English Legal System and Criminal Law). Since 2019, Mahmoud has acted as the CLS Lead for academic integrity and student mobility, and actively acted as a Progress Coach within the law school. While Mahmoud's main focus is to provide excellent collaborative teaching, learning and research, he is also keen to further develop his leadership skills in order to further his career progression, ultimately, leading in HE at national and/or international level.

Mahmoud also acts as an external reviewer at the Journal of Corporate Law & Governance Review & teh European Journal of Legal Education.

Mahmoud has particular interest in International and Islamic Human Rights Law. Mahmoud is passionate about comparative research, while placing minority groups (including religious) protection against discrimination, hate and violence at the centre. Mahmoud's current research aims to generate debate regarding the possiblilty of proposing a middle ground between Islamic and international human rights law on issues pertaining to Human Rights generally, but teh regulation of offensive anti-religious speech in particular.

Mahmoud's research interest extends beyond free speech and minority rights, to women rights in Islam, the statehood of Palestine as a matter of international law, Islamophobia as an upsurging global concern and the impact of war from historical and contemporary perspectives. 

Mahmoud's PhD title is "Conceptual and legal harmonisation of offensive anti-religious speech: Reconciling the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights with the approach of Muslim States for the protection of Islamic beliefs, and Muslim and non-Muslim minority groups"