Dhaka University Law Journal

Editor's note

Taslima Monsoor

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Directors’ Duties and Breach of Duties in Bangladesh and the united Kingdom: Convergence and Diversity

Md. Khurshid Alam

Abstract is not available.

Intellectual Property Perspectives of Women’s Traditional Knowledge in Bangladesh

Md. Towhidul Islam

Abstract is not available.

Formation of the Constitution and the legal system in Bangladesh: From 1971 to 1972: A critical legal analysis

Muhammad Ekramul Haque

Abstract is not available.

Contract and judicial review in Bangladesh: From Sharping to present

Dalia Pervin

The government is the biggest procurer in Bangladesh. It continues to enter into
numerous contracts daily. When such contracts are entered into by the government in
performance of their statutory duty as sovereign, they are actions of public nature and
amenable to constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh under
judicial review. In other words, a citizen, who is a party to these special kinds of
contracts are able to claim enforcement of these contracts in constitutional courts in
addition to being enforced by civil courts only. In this article, the practice of these
contracts in Bangladesh are looked into. We have tried to cover the recent case laws on
the subject from the first case of it’s kind. The rationales adopted by the courts are self
explanatory and does not require interpretation. We have endeavored to put up a map of
development on this area of law. There is no other specific research question in this
article other than the mapping of the progress of the availability of judicial review in
government related contracts. While the courts recognize all the other ingredients of the
law of contracts to be present in these special contracts, the extraordinary remedy of
judicial review and its availability in certain cases make all the difference.

Denouncing Torture: From Universal Prohibition to National Eradication

Raushan Ara

Abstract is not available.

Revisiting theRelationship between Human Rights and Bioethics: Supportive or Counteractive?

Md. Jobair Alam Jobair Alam

Modern bioethics is unequivocally founded on the pedestal of the values consecrated in
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration on Bioethics
and Human rights, on the other hand, practicallypays heed on the need to harmonize
bioethics and human rights in reorienting bioethical discourse towards a broader basis
and symbolically, reminds that the mere rhetoric of rights is insufficient to protect
those who are most vulnerable in the world. Hence, at a point human rights and
bioethics acts and counteracts in reaching their respective goals.The object of the study
is to critically analyze the relationship between human rights and bioethics. A
pluralistic methodology is followed in this regard. In order to achieve the objective the
study after certain conceptual clarity, asked one question- to what extent human rights
and bioethics assist, counteract and overlap each other in reaching their respective
and shared goals? The study concludes that although at a certain point, human rights
and bioethics merge, still there are good differences between them and a significant
substratum must be carried out, to clarify exactly how the respective claims and
conflicts of both of them can be mitigated, before they can reinstate their expedition in
the similar way.