Rate My Professor Mohammad Abu Sayeed

Mohammad Abu Sayeed is affiliated with the School of Law at the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. His scholarly contributions center on constitutional law and corporate social responsibility (CSR) regulation, particularly in the contexts of Bangladesh, Australia, and India. Sayeed has co-authored peer-reviewed articles in prominent international and comparative law journals. In 2025, he collaborated with Associate Professor Mia Mahmudur Rahim on "Promise and Perils of Basic Structure Doctrine in Bangladesh," published in the Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law (33(2), 475-515). The article contends that the basic structure doctrine's application has undermined its moral authority in ensuring effective constitutional amending flexibility in Bangladesh. It endorses the doctrine's compatibility with constitutional democracy while critiquing its misapplication and proposing a redesigned framework prioritizing judicial minimalism and inevitability.

In 2024, Sayeed and Rahim published "Reaching an Aim Differently? Corporate Social Responsibility Regulation in Australia and India" in the Cardozo International and Comparative Law Review (7(3), 821-865). This work evaluates voluntary CSR in Australia against mandatory CSR in India, challenging the strict dichotomy between these approaches. It posits that CSR regulation should transcend absolute separations, integrating social values into corporate practices more effectively through hybrid strategies. Earlier, in 2023, Sayeed co-authored "Between a republican and a Bengalee state: Confronting exclusionary constitutionalism in Bangladesh" with Lima Aktar in Global Constitutionalism (12(3)). The paper dissects Bangladesh's constitutional design as aspiring to both republican and ethno-nationalist Bengalee ideals, advocating de-ethnicization to fulfill republican integration and counter exclusionary politics. Sayeed has presented at academic conferences, including the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (2022) on constitutional meaning in Giorgio Agamben's philosophy and ICON·S (2024) on the Gandhian concept of constitution. He also serves as a teaching fellow at UNSW Law & Justice.