Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued a circular on June 25, 2020 allowing factoring in Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh has not yet ratified the UNIDROIT Convention on International Factoring (Ottawa, 28 May 1988).

Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz in his book Making Globalization Work showed that the international pharmaceutical patents law, the WTO

The Lawyers & Jurists Foundation has initiated a digital webinar series on ‘Road Map from Legal Studies to a Successful Career’ aimed at providing guidelines to the law students in pursuing a successful career. The first episode of the webinar series was streamed live on a number of platforms, including Facebook, on August 7, 2020.

In a historic moment, the International Labour Organisation Convention on Worst Forms of Child Labour, formally known as Convention No. 182 has received universal ratification - this makes it the first international labour standard to receive universal recognition.

Since the emergence of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) in 1960s, IIA regime has gone through a myriad of changes in terms of impetus and implication.

One might wonder whether the series of death threats and abuses hurledat 10 Minute School, an online education platform, allegedly over a comment made by one of its former educators appreciating a post on pro-LGBTQ and videos relating to menstruation and sexual consent posted on its website,

A Russian career diplomat, Mr. Sergey Kapinos is currently the Regional Representative at the UNODC Regional Office for South Asia.

The Lawyers & Jurists Foundation successfully completed its 4th digital dialogue on ‘The Functioning of the Courts during the Pandemic of Covid-19: Issues and Challenges’, which was streamed live from its Facebook page on July 25, 2020.

Anticipatory bail, one of the reliefs within the auspices of the criminal justice system, had been more popular in our country before its scope was narrowed down by the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in Durnity Daman Commission v Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain (2014).

We are going through the crisis of the century faced by the mankind due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the countries are implementing drastic lockdown measures as well as travel restrictions, which are creating serious supply-chain disruptions, production delays and distribution slowdowns, resulting in major impediments for many businesses that depend on international supplies.

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the economy around the world. The IMF has identified three areas of the Bangladesh economy that have been hugely impacted by this pandemic.

The Covid-19 crisis has tremendously increased the use of internet and accelerated the digitalisation of many businesses and services through introducing teleworking and video conferencing in different sectors.

The study of business ethics and practices deals with issues like lack of corporate governance, insider trading, rampant practice of bribery, presence of discrimination, absence of corporate social responsibility, etc.

The Black Lives Matter campaign inspired informed debates and discussions on racism and colourism across the world. In this backdrop, several notable beauty conglomerates recently decided to remove words like ‘white/whitening’ and fair/fairness from their products’ packs and communication with a view to evolving their skin care portfolio to a more inclusive vision of beauty.

Legal Counsel, a reputed law chambers located in Dhaka arranged a webinar on “Digital Communication, Data Protection and Data Privacy” on 12 July 2020.

On 1 July 2020 the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2532 (2020) supporting the Secretary General’s appeal for

While people are facing the greatest public health crisis, the world’s largest economies are in a fierce competition to be the first to develop a COVID-19 vaccine and ensure its accessibility to their citizens. Quite evidently, the mysterious virus has introduced a whole new global race - the race to win exclusive patent rights to a Covid-19 vaccine.

The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a huge toll on the healthcare sector across the globe. The situation is seemingly more unfortunate in a developing country like Bangladesh.

For a long time, a major issue that has plagued international trade is that payments are received many weeks, and sometimes even months, after the delivery of the goods.

Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at the heart of the current crisis that the whole world is undergoing. Due to the spread of coronavirus, while all offices, services are closed or nearly closed, one institution across the world never closed for a moment is the hospital.