A roadmap to amending the National Human Rights Commission Act 2009
16 May 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Youth network launched to combat human trafficking and migrant smuggling
4 May 2026, 21:52 PM
Law & Our Rights
Law Review / Reimagining legal aid in Bangladesh
22 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Court Corridor / The writ on banning “Mangal Shobhajatra”
22 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Law Letter / On mental health rights protection in Bangladesh
22 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Law and War / Iran crisis and the nuances of enforcing force majeure clause
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Law Review / Our animal protection laws
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Law Letter / Regulating “visual pollution”
10 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Law Review / A review of the Commercial Court Ordinance 2026
1 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
Rights Watch / Joli No’udim Hittei?- “Why shouldn’t I resist?”
1 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Law & Our Rights
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
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, 18:00 PM
Roundtable discussion on Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and Population Council jointly hosted the Roundtable Discussion on the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 in collaboration with the University of Kent...
15 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Compensating transboundary environmental harm
On February 2, 2018, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) awarded compensatory damages to Costa Rica for internationally wrongful
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Bridging the standardisation gap
The World Telecommunication Day (WTD), celebrated annually on 17 May, marks the anniversary of the founding of International
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM
The legal regime on food safety and human health
The High Court Division (HCD) had issued a suo motu rule asking the respective authorities regarding adulteration of dairy products
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM
A preposterous directive on the apprentice lawyers
The delay in the advocate enrolment examination has already fermented deep frustration among many aspiring lawyers rightfully
13 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Is ”Legal Aid” a constitutional right?
Political philosopher Charles de Montesquieu said, “In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
6 May 2019, 18:10 PM
Revisiting Small Cause Courts Act
The Small Cause Courts Act 1887 was brought to regulate small issues and matters by the assigned courts. It is no doubt that the law was brought with the purpose of resolving disputes of small nature in a convenient manner.
6 May 2019, 18:10 PM
Media to fight against disinformation
World Press Freedom Day was observed on May 03, 2019. The day, which commemorates the Declaration of Windhoek, was first proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993.
6 May 2019, 18:00 PM
DU competes Media Law Moot Court in Oxford
The Price Media Law Moot Court Programme established by the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom, is the largest mooting competition in the field of international media law.
6 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Your Advocate
This week Your Advocate is Barrister Omar Khan Joy, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is the head of the chambers of a renowned law firm, namely, ‘Legal Counsel’, which has expertise mainly in commercial law, corporate law, family law,
6 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Local govt polls ‘challenging’, but no lack of effort: CEC
21 May 2026, 15:07 PM
National Election 2026
EC names 23 parties for missing election expense accounts submission deadline
20 May 2026, 00:32 AM
National Election 2026
UN Women raises concern with EC over women’s representation in parliament
17 May 2026, 16:07 PM
National Election 2026
BNP, NCP among 25 political parties yet to submit election expenditure to EC
13 May 2026, 22:01 PM
National Election 2026