Dr Mohammad Nayyeri
Lecturer in Law

Summary

Dr Mohammad Nayyeri is a Lecturer in Law at Brunel Law School.

He 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, he held fellowships at the Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg (CHREN) in Erlangen, 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 extensive experience as a counsel, arbitrator, and independent legal expert in domestic and international litigation and arbitration, with particular expertise in Iranian law and disputes involving transnational legal issues. He has advised and acted in a wide range of complex proceedings, drawing on his background in both Iranian and English legal systems and his experience in legal practice and scholarship.

As an independent legal expert, Mohammad has been instructed by leading law firms in the UK, Canada, the US, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Singapore, and Malaysia, providing expert opinions to courts and tribunals in significant and high-value disputes. His recent work includes proceedings concerning the recognition and enforcement of a major arbitral award before the Hague Court of Appeal and proceedings before the Commercial Court in London.

Qualifications

Responsibility

• Postgraduate Research (PGR) and PhD Programme Lead
• Convenor of Public Law and Legal Skills
• Convenor of Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and ESG
• Co-director of the ‘Migration, Asylum & Law’ research group