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Administrative Law Articles

Historical Basis of Modern Ombudsman: A Critical Inquiry

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...