This book is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of international law from Global South perspectives with specific reference to Bangladesh.
The book not only sheds new light on classical international law concepts, such as statehood, citizenship, and self-determination, but also covers more current issues including Rohingya refugees, climate change, sustainable development, readymade garment workers and crimes against humanity. Written by area specialists, the book explores how international law shaped Bangladesh state practice over the last five decades; how Bangladesh in turn contributed to the development of international law; and the manner in which international law is also used as a hegemonic tool for marginalising less powerful countries like Bangladesh. By analysing stories of an ambivalent relationship between international law and post-colonial states, the book exposes the duality of international law as both a problem-solving tool and as a language of hegemony.
Despite its focus on Bangladesh, the book deals with the more general problem of post-colonial states’ problematic relationship with international law and so will be of interest to students and scholars of international law in general, as well as those interested in the Global South and South Asia in particular.
Foreword
A. F. M. Maniruzzaman
Part I General International Law Issues
1. Glimpses of International Law Discourse
Borhan Uddin Khan & Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman
2. Framework of Engagement with International Law
Farhaan Uddin Ahmed
3. Judicial Invocation of International Law
Abdullah Al Faruque
4. Involvements in International Courts & Tribunals
Abdullah Al Faruque
Part II Sources
5. Customary International Law
Emraan Azad
6. The Law of Treaties and Treaty Reservations
Md. Al-Ifran Hosain Mollah
Part III Statehood
7. Territory, People, and Self-determination
K. M. Shazzad Mohashin
8. Citizenship and Statelessness
Naureen Rahim
9. Natural Resources
Md. Lokman Hussain
10. International Watercourse Law
Md. Nazrul Islam
11. Marine Resources and the Blue Economy
Tahsin Khan
Part IV International Environment Law
12. International Environmental Law
Mohammad Golam Sarwar
13. Climate Change and Human Mobility
Mostafa Mahmud Naser
14. Sustainable Development
Md. Abu Bakar Siddique
Part V International Economic Law
15. Intellectual Property Rights and Other Trade & Development Challenges
Shawkat Alam
16. LDC Graduation and WTO Challenges
Md. Abu Saleh & Muhammad Omar Faruque
17. International Investment Agreements
Ferdous Rahman
Part VI International Criminal Law
18. International Criminal Law: Historical Perspectives
Quazi Omar Foysal
19. Substantive Law of the International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh)
M. Rafiqul Islam
20. Crimes against Humanity and the Principle of Legality
M. Sanjeeb Hossain
Part VII The State and Its Others
21. Women and a National Imaginary
Psymhe Wadud
22. Rohingya Refugees
Md. Mostafa Hosain
23. Religious Minorities
Tapas Baul & Priyanka Bose Kanta
24. Indigenous Peoples & Ethnic Minorities
Mohammad Shahabuddin
25. Readymade Garment Workers and Inchoate Compensation Rights
Taqbir Huda
26. Slum Dwellers and Forced Evictions
S. M. Atia Naznin
27. Voices of Dissent
Tashmia Sabera
Biography
Mohammad Shahabuddin is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham, UK.
