On the controversial extradition bill of Hong Kong

The whole of Hong Kong is shaken by the thousands of protesters who have blocked the streets to raise their voice against the recent controversial extradition bill of the country.
17 June 2019

20th June: The World Refugee Day

The World Refugee Day is observed every year on 20th June, dedicated to raising awareness about the plights of the millions of refugees and displaced people around the world.
17 June 2019

Rethinking investor state dispute settlement mechanisms

Investor State dispute settlement (ISDS) is the mechanism of settling investment disputes transpired between host States (States where investments are made by foreign investors) and investors by ad hoc investment tribunals.
17 June 2019

The role of civil justice in achieving SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into force by a historic UN Summit with a view to mobilising efforts to end all forms of poverty, inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
17 June 2019

Children shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams

The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the World Day Against Child Labour in 2002 to focus attention on the global extent of child labour and the action and efforts needed to eliminate it.
10 June 2019

The importance of forensic evidence in our justice system

With the advent of time, the commission of crimes is becoming more sophisticated, critical, digital and organised. The pattern of committing crimes is changing with the changes of science and technology.
10 June 2019

Our right to easy access to information

Information is prerequisite for humans to perform several activities.
10 June 2019

Dealing with deadlock in mediation

Meditation is one of the fair modes of settlement of disputes pending among the contesting parties. It is a voluntary, party-controlled and structured negotiation mechanism where a ‘neutral third party’ assists the disputant parties in resolving their conflicts amicably.
10 June 2019

Determining the extent of right to safe environment

From the perspective of judicial enforcement, environmental rights can be divided into two kinds - substantive and procedural. A
3 June 2019

Landmark environmental law verdicts

While our higher judiciary has no original jurisdiction on environment matters, its writ jurisdiction has been frequently invoked in the
3 June 2019

An Overview of Environmental Laws of Bangladesh

With the imminent threat of climate change on one hand and the everyday cost of deteriorating habitability on the other, Bangladesh is
3 June 2019

On Hindu women’s right to property

According to classical Hindu law, all daughters of a man are not equally eligible to inherit. Unmarried daughters and married daughters with sons can inherit, while childless widowed daughters or daughters having no son or with no possibility of having sons are excluded.
27 May 2019

Legal protection of intellectual creations

I study computer science and engineering in DUET. I am in the final year of my bachelors. Last semester of the final year, I designed a robot which can speak in four different languages (Bangla, English, French and Spanish) through automation. The unique feature of this robot is that
27 May 2019

Allahabad High Court decides on marital rape

Allahabad High Court, India has held that forcible sex, be it unnatural or natural, is an illegal intrusion into the privacy of the wife and amounts to cruelty against her. The division bench comprising of Justice Shashi Kant Gupta and Justice Pradeep Kumar Srivastava upheld a District Court order
27 May 2019

Our ‘Problematic’ Law Making Process

Legislative process in our parliament is claimed to be an upshot of the Westminster parliament. Like the Westminster, here government businesses are prioritised over private member initiatives for law making. However, unlike the Westminster, opposition and backbencher voices in Bangladesh
27 May 2019

UAP holds intra-department moot competition

University of Asia Pacific Moot Court Club (UAPMCC) organised the 3rd Intra-Department Moot Court Competition on Contract and Tort Law for the students of Department of Law and Human Rights, University of Asia Pacific (UAP), on April 26 and 27, 2019.
21 May 2019

Encroachment and pollution: A dual threat to our rivers

Considering that Dhaka city is gradually losing its wetlands, rivers and flood flow zones due to filling, encroachments and pollution, the High Court Division has recently given a verdict.
20 May 2019

The ever-evolution of international law

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.
20 May 2019

Migrant workers’ death in the Mediterranean

Last week, around 60 migrants died when the vessel transporting them from Italy to Libya sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Most of them were Bangladeshis.
20 May 2019

Cybersquatting, online business and the importance of trademarks

Commercial opportunities and ancillary frauds walk hand in hand and online business is not an exception to the foregoing. The term squatting denotes unlawfully occupying any property without permission.
20 May 2019