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Originalism Book Review

Providing Service in Platform Economy as Franchisee: An Analysis

Concerns about work conditions in the platform economy have been a common topic of scholarly and judicial debates for quite a long time in the West. Anyone keeping an eye on the international news out...

Mahdi Maswood

First Amendment Book Review

Maintainability of Writ Petition: An Appraisal

It is not often that a Judge of the Supreme Court writes a book. The absence of publications by members of the higher judiciary has meant that the legal community has been unable to draw upon their ex...

Ehsan A. Siddiq

Administrative Law Book Review

Remembering Thurgood Marshall: A courageous lawyer and a great judge

It would not be an overstatement to say that no person has achieved more for race equality through legal processes than did Thurgood Marshall for the greater part of the last century. He pursued his p...

Imran Siddiq

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 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

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