SAARC's Best Law Teacher Award, Faizan Mustafa is an Indian academic and legal scholar.

Before taking charge as VC of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) Hyderabad, he was the founding Vice-Chancellor of National Law University Odisha (NLUO), located at Cuttack, Odisha.

Besides teaching and research works in the field of law, he has also authored several books and plenty of papers in national and international journals.

He was awarded Renne Cassin Gold Medal of International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France in 1999.

In 2009 he won Shah Waliullah International Award of Institute of Objective Studies, New Delhi for his paper on Constitutionalism in Islamic Perspective.