Mohammad Nayyeri is a Lecturer in Law at Brunel University London where, among other modules, he teaches the postgraduate module ‘The Migrant, the State, and the Law’. He is also the co-director of the ‘Migration, Asylum and Law’ research group at Brunel Law School, and has been recognised as an expert by the European Union Agency for Asylum. He gained his PhD in law in 2020 at King’s College London and has also studied law in Iran up to PhD level and qualified as an Attorney at Law.
Dr. Mohammad Nayyeri

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Hosting institute
- Centre for Human Rights Erlangen-Nürnberg
Current affiliation
- Brunel University London, UK
Memberships
Key expertise
- Legal theory
- Law and philosophy of human rights
- Immigration and asylum law
- Populism
Regional expertise
- Vereinigtes Königreich
- Iran
- Middle East
Profile according to FFVT taxonomy
Scientific topics
- Integration And Social Participation
- International Protection
- Local And Municipal Refugee Policies
- Media
- National Refugee And Asylum Policies
- Racism
- Refugee Law
- Religion
Disciplines
- Political Sciences
- Law
- Philosophy And Religious Studies
Professional Career
Relevant publications
- The Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK.2023.Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.
- Human Rights Conventions.2022.M.N.S. Sellers and Stephan Kirste (eds), Encyclopaedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Springer.
- Looking at Human Rights through a Near-sighted Single Lens.2017.Essay-review on Samuel Moyn’s Christian Human Rights, Religion & Human Rights, Vol 12, Issue 1, pages: 67–77.