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Rashad Ibadov is the Director of Law Program and an Assistant Professor of Law at the School of Public and International Affairs, ADA University, Baku, Azerbaijan and a visiting professor of law at the Catholic University of Lille, Lille, France.

Ibadov received his Doctor of Laws (LL.D) from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2013), LL.M degree on “International Human Rights Law” from the Faculty of Law and Raul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University, Sweden (2004-2006), and LL.B degree (high honor) from the School of Law and Social Sciences, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan (1999-2003). Ibadov was a doctoral visiting fellow at the Graduate Program of Harvard Law School (2009-2010), and for the previous year a visiting scholar at Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Ibadov teaches ‘Legal History and Philosophy’, ‘Political Theory’, ‘EU Law’, ‘Law and Ethics’ and ‘International Human Rights Law’ courses, and his areas of research interests include law and religion, political and legal philosophy, constitutional law, citizenship and identity in the post-Soviet space. Ibadov won number of prestigious scholarships, namely, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy Ph.D. Scholarship (EUI/2006-2010); the Swedish Development and Co-operation Agency (SIDA) LL.M Scholarship (Lund University/2004-2006); Atlas Program Fellowship (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme/ Catholic University of Lille/2017), Erasmus Mundus IMRCEES Visiting Teaching Scholarship (University of Glasgow/2014) and the Civil Society Scholar Award (ADA University/2014-2015).