Volume: 2 December 2016

Judiciary Book Review

Remembering Thurgood Marshall: A courageous lawyer and a great judge

It would not be an overstatement to say that no person has achieved more for race equality through legal processes than did Thurgood Marshall for the greater part of the last century. He pursued his p...

Judiciary Case Comments

The State v. Advocate Md. Qamrul Islam and Another (2016)

The last couple of years have seen a noticeable spike in the number of proceedings for the contempt of scandalization. In January 2015, the editor and joint editor of the most widely distributed natio...

Intellectual Property Law Articles

The Problem of Copyright Compliance in the Music Industry of Bangladesh: An analysis

According to the 2015 Report of International Property Rights Index, Bangladesh in terms of Intellectual Property (IP) protection is 128th out of 129 countries. Moreover it has the highest copyright p...

Constitutional Law Articles

Can the Court Invalidate an Original Provision of the Constitution

Instead of investigating whether judges can invalidate 'unconstitutional constitutional amendments', this article seeks to inquire into how far a court can go in invaliding an amendment or how it inte...

Judiciary Case Comments

The case of Moulana Abdul Hakim and Judicial Review. A move towards the right direction?

The ruling in Moulana Md. Abdul Hakim v. Government of Bangladesh & Others in 2014 has extended the frontiers of judicial review under the Bangladeshi constitutional scheme. The judgment explores...

Intellectual Trade Law Articles

Infusion of Social clause into Global Trade Agreements How necessary are they?

This article examines whether social clauses should be instilled into global trade agreements so as to develop labour standards in exporting countries, i.e. developing countries from the South. Social...