A/2, Jahurul Islam Avenue
Jahurul Islam City, Aftabnagar
Dhaka-1212, Bangladesh
Ali Mashraf completed his LLB (Honors) and LLM (with specialization in International Law) from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Earlier, he served as the Program Officer, South Asia, and Junior Legal Analyst, Bangladesh of iProbono, a global organization with the mission to enable people to access their rights in pursuit of a just society. He assisted in streamlining iProbono's access to justice program across South Asia, oversaw iProbono's transactional projects, and helped expand its network in Bangladesh.
Ali's research interests lie in human rights law, constitutional law, environmental law, criminal law, law reform, alternative dispute resolution, sports law, etc. He has published articles and book chapters in national and international journals and edited books on environmental law, criminal law, constitutional law, and access to justice. He also writes extensively on constitutional issues (constitutional rights, remedies available for violation of constitutional rights, judicial activism, notable Supreme Court judgments, etc.) for renowned national dailies and law blogs.
Ali has represented Bangladesh in various international youth and legal forums, symposiums, workshops, and competitions, such as The Asia Pacific Youth Exchange at the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in the Philippines; The Price Media Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Oxford in the UK; The One Belt One Road Forum in Hong Kong and China; The Justice P.N. Bhagwati International Moot Court Competition on Human Rights at the Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune in India; The Asia Pro Bono Conferences. He has also completed a professional certification course on sports law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.
At law school, Ali served as a Senior Editor of Dhaka Law Review, a journal of legal scholarship edited and managed independently by law students of the University of Dhaka. He has won multiple championships, best memorial awards, and best mooter awards in national and international moot court competitions representing the Dhaka University Moot Court Society. Ali has over 12 years of experience writing for prominent newspapers and blogs on sports and contemporary and thought-provoking legal issues. He also has more than nine years of experience volunteering for social causes. Moreover, he is involved in a diverse range of ECAs: facilitating mooting and public speaking sessions in different law schools of Bangladesh, promoting English debate across Bangladesh as the former Vice-Chair of Bangladesh Debating Council, adjudicating in various high school and university level competitions, etc.
Academic:
Non-academic:
Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution