1 — Auguest 2015

Volume: 1

Criminal Procedure Articles

The National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) in India: Judicial reform or act of political aggrandizement

Independence of judiciary is sine qua non for the survival of a healthy democracy. One of the elements having important bearing on the independence of judiciary is- an ap- propriate method of appointm...

Nidhi Gupta

Constitutional Law Book Review

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...

Ehsan A. Siddiq

Administrative Law Book Review

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...

Werner Menski

First Amendment Book Review

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...

Ashraf Hoque

Administrative Law Articles

The Land Boundary Agreement between India and Bangladesh Disputes (not) over yet – Amit Ranjan

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...

Amit Ranjan

Constitutional 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...

Abdullah Al Faruque

Criminal Procedure Articles

The Application of Hudud law to the Offence of Rape in Pakistan A misconstruction of the principles of Shari‘ah law. – Muhammad Nazibur Rahman

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...

Muhammad Nazibur Rahman