World Day of Social Justice is a relatively new edition to the diverse string of international observance days as declared by the United

Delegated legislations are in some ways a familiar paradox in modern liberal democracies. On the one hand, in essence, they being laws

We often think about victims' rights and restorative justice, but how many of us think about offenders' rights and their re-integration into the society? In our

After what had begun to appear as a stale mate, the government has finally approved of the Draft Policy for Domestic Workers. The policy was endorsed and subsequently given a go-ahead in a regular cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on 21 December 2015.

Many readers might come across the news on children planners published in the back page of The Daily Star on 14 January 2015. 'Children the planners'

An indigenous student of Dhaka University, who resides in Jagannath Hall, was stating his happiness with the state language as well as feeling sorry for his

We often think that preparing for law school always has to be purely academic. Yes, it has to be; but at the same time there's plenty we

Law of the sea is a branch of public international law governed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),

Much has been debated on the issue of women's right to property and the feasibility of its governance under traditional Hindu legal

Dr. Md. Ershadul Karim is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya in Malaysia, and holds a PhD from the same

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, employment and labor law, land law, banking law, constitutional law, criminal law, IPR and in conducting litigations before courts of different hierarchies.

RECENTLY on 19 January 2016, a special talk on the topic of Human Rights: The Role of Young Lawyers was held at the Department of Law,

The word 'witness' can be defined as any person, who is required to give evidence in any investigative or judicial proceedings in relation to the commission of an offence.

Separate laws should be enacted for the protection of industrial designs, utility models, PVP, cross-cutting IPRs, trade-secrets, preventing unfair competition, and integrating IP offices, and necessary amendments need be made to the existing laws.

The Dalits are known as the 'untouchables' in many parts of South Asia. They face discrimination at all levels of social interaction such as from...

Kashif A. Khan is the Executive Director of Insight Bangladesh Foundation, an organisation specialising on research of ICT advancement & technology modulation. Adib Shamsuddin from Law Desk talks with him on the following issues.

The youth should avoid being maintainers, just for the sake, they should be at the forefront of changing the status quo and making our country a better place for all irrespective of age, ethnicity, religious or political persuasion.

China passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law on December 27th, 2015 that requires technology firms to help decrypt information, but not install security "backdoors" as initially planned, and allows the military to venture overseas on counter-terror operations.

Legal empowerment of the poor is seen as a pre-condition for eradication of poverty today. But are the global anti poverty programmes really bringing the needed relief to the world's poor? What is the position of urban population living in extreme poverty in this regard? Exploring the much needed answers to these questions, two renowned researchers spoke in a symposium before a concerned audience on Saturday, January 2nd 2015.

Much has been written about the alleged banking scams in HallMark Group and also about the swindling of public money in BASIC Bank. These incidents appear to be outright scams and the magnitude of the money and people involved in them are very worrying and surely they entail outright squandering of