Amina Yesmin is a Lecturer in the Department of Law at Bangladesh University. She holds a Master of Laws and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the Department of Law at the University of Barishal. Her academic and professional background encompasses legal education, socio-legal research, disability rights, data analysis, and youth engagement.

Academic Experience

Amina Yesmin has been serving as a Lecturer in the Department of Law at Bangladesh University since June 2025. Her academic responsibilities include teaching courses in the LL.B. programme, conducting research, preparing and developing course materials, setting and moderating examination questions, evaluating assignments and class tests, providing constructive feedback, and conducting student counselling sessions.

Professional Practice

She has professional research and data analysis experience through several research and development initiatives. From January 2021 to January 2022, she worked as a Research Assistant on the project titled Access to Legal Information by Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh, commissioned by the University of Barishal. Her responsibilities included collecting qualitative and quantitative data on the legal rights of persons with disabilities and assisting with literature reviews, interviews, case studies, focus group discussions, and report writing. She also worked as a Data Intern at Micro Governance Research Initiative from November 2020 to August 2021, collecting and analyzing newspaper-based data on crime and violence across Bangladesh, preparing monthly datasets and presentations, and writing reports on webinars.

From April to October 2020, she served as a Promise Fellow under the SAVE Youth Promise Fellowship, a programme implemented through a partnership between the SAVE Youth programme at the University of Dhaka and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), Washington, D.C., with UK aid funding. Her work included researching the socio-economic impact of COVID-19, collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, preparing periodic reports, promoting counter-messages against COVID-19-related hate speech and social stigma, and participating in youth panel discussions and webinars organized by national and international organizations.