Law Vision / Artificial Intelligence and the court
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Environmental Law / Protecting our climate-induced displaced population
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Law Opinion / Referendum and July Charter: A constitutional reckoning for Bangladesh
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Rights Watch / The costs of Bangladesh’s shipbreaking industry
14 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Law Vision / Addressing climate-induced displacement in Bangladesh
14 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Intellectual Property Law / Trademark law and the curious case of Sattar Buksh
7 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Court Corridor / The enduring crisis of administrative corruption
7 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Law Review / Significance of reforms around arrest processes
7 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Law vision / Regulating battery-run rickshaws
4 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Book Review / Reflections on ‘Company Law: Text, Cases and Materials’
4 October 2025, 18:00 PM
11th Parliament: Rays of hope for the committee system
Thomas Brackett Reed, once the minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives branded the parliamentary committees as “the eye, the hand and the brain” of the legislature.
4 March 2019, 18:00 PM
University of Dhaka, the national champion of Jessup 2019
From the 31 participating teams, University of Dhaka emerged as the champion of Jessup Bangladesh 2019, and Eastern University as the runner-up team.
25 February 2019, 18:00 PM
The long forgotten law of probation of offenders
Very recently, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh Syed Mahmud Hossain has directed the judges to apply to a forgotten law of the 1960s, namely the Probation of Offenders Ordinance 1960, to reduce the pressure on prison and to implement 'corrective'
18 February 2019, 18:00 PM
How does the Bar Council Tribunal function
All lawyers who practice in Bangladesh must maintain the ethical standards imposed by the Bangladesh Bar Council. As an arm of the
18 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Restraining Coaching business or teachers?
On 7 February 2019, the High Court Division (HCD) delivered a judgment on the legality of a policy promulgated by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in 2012 on limiting the involvement of teachers in the coaching business.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Circumventing the legitimate interest of Bangladesh
IN one of the previous write-ups published on 15 January 2019 in The Daily Star, I have discussed about the rigidity and partisanism in the arbitration law and panels of the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Indian SC answers a pertinent property question
The Supreme Court of India (SCI) granted relief to a party, who was misled to purchase a property by erroneous representation of title by the vendor.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM
ICC jurisdiction and Non-party States
The coming into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on 1 July 2002 was an unprecedented
4 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Rivers are now 'legal persons'
Taking duly into account a report titled “Time to declare Turag dead” was published in The Daily Star on November 6, 2016, Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) filed a writ petition challenging legality of earth-filling, encroachment and construction of
4 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Bede community: The victims of urbanisation
The Greek word 'Nomades' is considered to be source of the English word 'Nomadia' or 'Nomads' (often known as Roma/Gypsies or Sinti depending on places or regions) that signifies a group of people who are used to moving from places to places,
28 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Workshop on mooting held at BUP
The Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) and the BUP Law and Moot Court Club (BUPLMCC) jointly organised a day long workshop on mooting and memorial writing on January 22, 2019.
28 January 2019, 18:00 PM
The over-use of NIDs in Bangladesh
Recently, the policymakers have circulated the idea of the compulsory use of national identity card (NIDs) for purchasing something as
28 January 2019, 18:00 PM
BILIA holds symposium on rohingya crisis
On January 19, 2019, the Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) organised a symposium titled "Prosecution for Violation of Human Rights: The Rohingya Crisis in Context" at BILIA Auditorium.
22 January 2019, 18:00 PM
New book on legal citation
Daily Star Books has published a new book titled Bangladesh Style of Citation of Legal Authorities, co-edited by Md. Rizwan Islam,
21 January 2019, 18:00 PM
BARRISTER MOZAMMEL HOSSAIN: Another Bangladeshi-born QC
Queen's Counsel (QC), also known as taking silk, is appointed from legal professionals who demonstrate distinct expertise in
21 January 2019, 18:00 PM
McDonald's loses a legal battle
PAT McDonagh was an Irish teenager who earned the nickname Supermac after a barnstorming performance in a Gaelic football match
21 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Remembering Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman
It was on 11 January, 2014, when Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman breathed his last and put an end to yet another era of
14 January 2019, 18:00 PM
ICSID: How impartial is the main BIT arbitration forum of Bangladesh?
Most BITs and the model BIT (Art 13) of Bangladesh have preferred the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as its arbitration forum, which warrants a contextual and purposive understanding of ICSID.
14 January 2019, 18:00 PM
National response to tobacco control
The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) aimed at protecting the present and future generations from the
7 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Overdue state party report of Bangladesh on the UNCAT
Till now the Government of Bangladesh has not submitted its initial state report to the Committee against Torture despite the fact that
7 January 2019, 18:00 PM