Bangladesh and International Law

Mohammad Shahabuddin is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, UK.

• Part I General International Law Issues 1. Glimpses of International Law Discourse 2. Framework of Engagement with International Law 3. Judicial Invocation of International Law 4. Involvements in International Courts & Tribunals Part II Sources 5. Customary International Law 6. The Law of Treaties and Treaty Reservations Part III Statehood 7. Territory, People, and Self-determination 8. Citizenship and Statelessness 9. Natural Resources 10. International Watercourse Law 11. Marine Resources and the Blue Economy Part IV International Environment Law 12. International Environmental Law 13. Climate Change and Human Mobility 14. Sustainable Development Part V International Economic Law 15. Intellectual Property Rights and Other Trade & Development Challenges 16. LDC Graduation and WTO Challenges 17. International Investment Agreements Part VI International Criminal Law 18. International Criminal Law: Historical Perspectives 19. Substantive Law of the International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh) 20. Crimes against Humanity and the Principle of Legality Part VII The State and Its Others 21. Women and a National Imaginary 22. Rohingya Refugees 23. Religious Minorities 24. Indigenous Peoples & Ethnic Minorities 25. Readymade Garment Workers and Inchoate Compensation Rights 26. Slum Dwellers and Forced Evictions 27. Voices of Dissent

“Mohammad Shahabuddin […] is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham and, remarkably, all twenty-nine contributors of the book are originally from Bangladesh – being both established legal academics and early researchers in their particular field of law; thus, the book is unique in that it presents a clear picture of a Global-South State approach to international law.”-- Hassan Al IMRAN. Asian Journal of International Law, Volume 12, Issue 1. January 2022, pp. 181 - 182.“[…] the significance of publication of this book, which in my opinion the most important one is – I see it as 'branding of Bangladesh' in international law discourse at global intellectual system. The book has added a new voice (the Bangladeshi voice) to the TWAIL and Global South discourse, an area of international law which in this part of the region for a long time is dominated by scholars from our next-door neighbor. By doing so it also pushes that idea of 'soft power' in international law discourse of the Bangladeshi legal scholarship at global intellectual system. An enthusiast might even call it a 'defining moment' for Bangladeshi legal academia. I hope and believe this book might be the 'first ever of such kind' but it will certainly not be the last one. […] Professor Shahabuddin is one of those rare Bangladeshi émigré scholars who went the extra mile to make sure that 'he' matters for Bangladesh. […] To know more about those stories of 'suffering, solidarity, resilience, resistance, and success' and about the storytellers —— my dear readers, please read the book.”-- Rumana Islam. The Daily Star. Tue May 4, 2021.