Papers by Md. Zahirul Islam
The organizers of the conference would like to thank first and foremost the APN for providing the... more The organizers of the conference would like to thank first and foremost the APN for providing the base funding support to convene the event. We also express our deepest appreciation to our co-organizers, DHM, CREEW, UY, and AIT for their relentless support, as well as to our co-sponsors, the British Council Nepal, ICIMOD, APMN, HUC, SEI, UNESCO, NTNC, NAST, IAHS, RTS, Prime Life Insurance, and Everest Insurance. Our sincere gratitude extends as well to our presenters and other resource people for their valuable guidance to and interactions with the conference's student participants. Most importantly, the organizers are well aware and appreciative of the personal sacrifices that many of the students had to make in order to attend. We tried our best to make the event worthwhile, not only for now but for well into the future as they pursue their careers. Dhiraj Pradhananga, SEN Michael H. Glantz, CCB i International Graduate Conference on Climate Change and People
Indian Journal of Constitutional Law, 2017
In Bangladesh, the existing socio-political realities require the judiciary to adopt and evolve a... more In Bangladesh, the existing socio-political realities require the judiciary to adopt and evolve an active and operational jurisprudence of its own to help gaining the promised constitutional democracy. The Judiciary, while functioning on this, generally pursued a broader approach to the justiciability of issues with political ramifications. It sometimes refused to go beyond the doctrine of political question so as to adjudicate ‘politics-inspired issues of constitutional importance’, sometimes avoided and sometimes accepted this doctrine. But a clear stand is yet to be found by judicial activism that could strongly contribute to the Constitutionalism. Therefore, this study is in search for a clear stand that Bangladesh judiciary can think logical and appropriate for itself, where especially in recent years, the judiciary has started playing an active role to establish constitutionalism.
Thus, this paper tries to find out a simple answer to the question: does Bangladesh need political doctrine? This paper analyses the political question doctrine and its relationship with judicial activism. This paper does not maintain that judiciary should intervene in every political dispute. Rather, it argues that there is no reason to disempower the judiciary to activate its function in the name of political question doctrine.
This paper attempts to analyze the existing ‘right to life jurisprudence’ with its latest consump... more This paper attempts to analyze the existing ‘right to life jurisprudence’ with its latest consumption. The right to life, though already has a very wide and broader scope, always continues to progress and widen in its scope. From an analytical approach, this work examines the fundamental nature of ‘right to life’ and its multi-dimensional scope already developed. Relying on an extensive study of the interpretation of ‘right to life’ by various national and international forums, this paper makes an honest endeavor to see whether thing has gone right to do justice to ‘right to life’ and other human rights brought into the arena of this right. This paper argues that broader interpretation of ‘right to life’ was not only inevitable to reflect the inclusive nature of the right, it was but also a much needed one to enforce some human rights which were mistakenly believed to be non-justiciable. By adopting such broader approach, while judicial and quasi-judicial forums in national and international level have contributed significantly to the promotion and protection of some human rights, such activism has played great role in the development of existing human rights jurisprudence.
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Papers by Md. Zahirul Islam
Thus, this paper tries to find out a simple answer to the question: does Bangladesh need political doctrine? This paper analyses the political question doctrine and its relationship with judicial activism. This paper does not maintain that judiciary should intervene in every political dispute. Rather, it argues that there is no reason to disempower the judiciary to activate its function in the name of political question doctrine.
Thus, this paper tries to find out a simple answer to the question: does Bangladesh need political doctrine? This paper analyses the political question doctrine and its relationship with judicial activism. This paper does not maintain that judiciary should intervene in every political dispute. Rather, it argues that there is no reason to disempower the judiciary to activate its function in the name of political question doctrine.