Volume: 1 Auguest 2015

Constitutional Law Articles

The National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) in India: Judicial reform or act of political aggrandizement

Independence of judiciary is sine qua non for the survival of a healthy democracy. One of the elements having important bearing on the independence of judiciary is- an ap- propriate method of appointm...

Human Rights Articles

A Critique of the Feminist Movement in Bangladesh The failure to protect women against “revenge porn”

This article considers the theoretical basis of the feminist movement in Bangladesh using the Pornography Control Act, 2012 as its central focus. It examines the dominating in- fluence of liberal femi...

Human Rights Articles

Bangladesh in 2015 Challenges of the iccher ghuri for learning to live together.

This article builds on earlier theoretical and development-related work about the practical relevance of legal pluralist theorising, a field of comparative law in which there is presently much and qui...

Administrative Law Articles

Does the law work in a village like Gulapbari An anthropological insight.

This article attempts to explore the relationship between law and anthropology, drawing on ethnographic research conducted in a Bangladeshi village. The article sheds light on the historical developme...

International Law Articles

The Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh Disputes (not) over yet

The genesis of the India-Bangladesh boundary disputes lies in the partition of India in 1947. The border demarcation commissions failed to address many grievances of people from India and Pakistan and...

Intellectual Trade Law Articles

Balance between Investment Treaty Obligations and Human Rights Obligation: What role can the Principle of Proportionality Play in petroleum disputes?

Investment disputes, whether arising out of breach of investment treaty or breach of in- vestment contract, often revolve around how to resolve the tension between the sovereign right to regulate the...

Criminal Law Articles

The Application of Hudud law to the Offence of Rape in Pakistan A misconstruction of the principles of Shari‘ah law.

Rape is a grievous offence under Islamic criminal law and some scholars treat it as a form of the hadd offence of zina(i.e. illicit sexual intercourse). This characterisation of rape as zinā is proble...