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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book launching ceremony held at BILIA

Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA) organised the launching of “Case Management in Reducing Case Backlog:
29 April 2019

Legal framework for workplace safety

Workplace health and safety conditions in Bangladesh has seen steady improvements since the disastrous Rana Plaza incident which
29 April 2019

Protecting the workers of informal sector

International Labor Organization has demonstrated in its recent report that there are 2 billion workers across the world working in the
29 April 2019

Parliamentary Reform: Making Sense of Our Successes and Failures

The Parliament of Bangladesh has been subject to a lot of historical, institutional and doctrinal analysis over the years.Authors
29 April 2019

THE ONGOING ROHINGYA CRISIS

Since August 2017, the ongoing Rohingya humanitarian crisis and the associated international crimes against the ethnic Rohingyas
22 April 2019