Month: May 2020

  1. Genocide and Justice Studies
  2. Human Rights Law
  3. Right to Justice

Hearing Women’s Voices: Justice for Survivors of Sexual Violence during Armed Conflicts

Where is justice located? Is it in the law? In the courts? Is its aim retribution for harms incurred? Punishment and revenge? What role does the law play in reckoning and reconciling with human rights violations in times of mass violence? The first people’s tribunal in the 1960s expanded our understanding of justice beyond the […]
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  1. Court Corridor
  2. Court Corridor 2020
  3. Judgments of Supreme Court of Bangladesh

From the Court Corridor: March Edition (Part II)

In part I, I highlighted the notable pronouncements of the High Court Division (HCD) and the Appellate Division (AD) of the Supreme Court (SC) of Bangladesh unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic from March 2020. Here in part II, I focus on the HCD’s directives relating to COVID-19. The HCD issued several rules in the form […]
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  1. Jurisprudence

The Adjusted Gross Revenue Conundrum: The Forgotten Aftermath of Indian Judicial Pronouncements on the National Economy

The proclivity to litigate in India has led to the judiciary dealing with matters that tend to have large scale ramifications on the economic functioning of the state. These generally arise in matters of private commercial disputes or commercial disputes against the government or in matters of antitrust law, for example. Of late, a new […]
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