Ridwanul Hoque is Senior Legal Officer at Charles Darwin University, Australia. Rokeya Chowdhury is an independent law and society researcher and is currently working with a Montreal-based law firm as its Senior Corporate Mobility Advisor.

• 1. Introduction: The Fifty Years of Bangladesh’s Constitutional Journey: Reflections and Hopes; Part I: The Founding of the Constitution, Competing Legal Norms and Identity Building; 2. Emergence of Bangladesh’s Legal System: Revolutionary Legality and a New Rule of Recognition; 3. The Constitution of Bangladesh and International Law; 4. Secularism and Islam as the State Religion: Conflict or Co-existence?; Part II: Constitutionalism, Rule of Law, and Judicial Review; 5. Rule of Law within the Constitutional Scheme: A Judicial Perspective; 6. Judicial Policy-making by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh; 7. Judicial Review and Separation of Powers: Is one Contingent upon the Other?; Part III: Political Parties, Executive Authority, and Parliament under the Constitutional Scheme; 8. Constituting Limits and Accountability of the Executive Power in Bangladesh; 9. Parliament of Bangladesh: Constitutional Position and Contributions; 10. Political Parties in the Process of Constitution-making and Amending: From Multi-party to One-party Dominant Politics?; Part IV: Social Justice, Inclusion, and the Protection of Rights; 11. Constitutional Protection of Economic and Social Human Rights: Intention of the Constitution Makers and Judicial Interpretations; 12. Locating women within ‘we, the people’ of Bangladesh; 13. Justice as Fairness and the Constitution of Bangladesh; 14. Conclusion: Constitutionalism Interrupted or Constitutionalism Absent? The Divergence of Constitution and Politics in Bangladesh