Associate Research Fellow
Research keywords: jurisprudence, law reform, development and law, justice and advocacy, colonial and post colonial law, history of the common law, public international law and international arbitration and dispute resolution.
Tahmina holds an LLB/International and Global Studies (USyd) and an LLM (International Law) (USyd). Her research as Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies is on the decriminalisation of poverty and status in South Asia which was presented at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa. She is currently working in intellectual property law and her prior experience in the legal space spanned across a range of litigation, commercial, not-for-profit and community legal centres in Sydney. She is admitted to practice in the State of New South Wales and holds a GradDipLaw from the College of Law. She has been invited to present on a panel discussion regarding the Legacy of Empire at the 2024 International Relations and the Commonwealth of Nations conference at St Mary's University, Twickenham where she will be presenting her masters paper written on the transportation of the common law system to the region that now constitutes Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
