Forhad Ahmed

The S Alam group has recently lodged an arbitration claim against Bangladesh at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). This event is significant for our investment law regime. The claim was made under one of our older Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) with Singapore from 2004.

Promotion, protection, and dispute resolution are the three core structures of an international investment agreement (IIA). While investment facilitation, policy incentives, and infrastructure readiness dominate the headlines, it is essential to remember that legal certainty remains the bedrock of investors’ confidence.

There are two layers of foreign investment protection. The first layer consists of the International Investment Treaties (IITs) in bilateral or multilateral forms facilitating foreign investments to host States with the necessary provisions for promoting and protecting the same.

The New York based Innocence Project is a legal attempt that is committed to exonerate wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing and to reform the criminal justice system for preventing future injustice. The standard that must be met by the

The book under review aims at providing a theory of how two core systems of international law, namely operating system and normative system interact with each other and how changes in one system ‘precipitate changes’ in the other.