Dr. Shafiqur Rahman Khan completed his doctoral degree from Macquarie University, Australia. His major areas of interest include international trade law, international law, human rights law, refugee law, media law and constitutional law. He holds an LLM in International Human rights Law from Lund University, Sweden where he was the recipient of the SIDA scholarship. He also holds LLB (Hons.) and LLM from University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. During law school, he served as executive editor of the Chittagong University Law Journal.