Rate My Professor Tanjina Sharmin

Dr. Tanjina Sharmin is a lecturer in the Monash Faculty of Law, having joined as a full-time lecturer in 2019. She earned her PhD in International Economic Law from Monash University, an LLM specialising in Commercial Laws from the University of Cambridge, and an LLM and LLB from the University of Dhaka. As a former Commonwealth Scholar, she received the Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2024 in recognition of her attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education. Prior to Monash, Sharmin served as a full-time lecturer for three and a half years at a premier Bangladeshi law school, where she led a research project for the United Nations Development Programme proposing reforms to the criminal justice sector in Bangladesh. Before entering academia, she practiced law in a foreign jurisdiction. At Monash, she teaches Law of Contract and Corporations Law and has been the Contract A course coordinator since 2024. She is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) and has contributed to a collaborative research project between Monash University and the Malaysian government focused on modernising Malaysia’s contract law framework. Her research interests include International Economic Law, Investor-State Dispute Resolution, Public International Law, and Commercial Laws. She is currently researching the regulatory space of host-states in post-COVID-19 international investment treaties.

Sharmin has published extensively on international investment law and arbitration, with 12 research outputs. Key publications include her book Application of Most-Favoured-Nation Clauses by Investor-State Arbitral Tribunals: Implications for the Developing Countries (Springer, 2020); the chapter “The MFN clause in investment law and arbitration: a developing countries perspective” in the Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy (Springer, 2021); and articles “Cancellation of the ZEDE law in Honduras and international investment law issues” (Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, 2025), “Australian COVID-19 measures and its international investment obligations” (co-authored with Emmanuel Laryea, 2022), and “Application of MFN to investment dispute settlement: rule of law issues” (co-authored with Emmanuel Laryea, 2021), all in the Journal of International Trade Law and Policy. Her scholarship examines most-favoured-nation clauses, investor-state arbitration, and implications for developing countries.