Articles
Contemporary practice of establishing Ombudsman in different public, private and social sectors to resolve individual grievances is increasing steadily. Critical appreciation of this fact ineludibly g...
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...
Intellectual Property Law Articles
The Problem of Copyright Compliance in the Music Industry of Bangladesh: An analysisAccording 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...