Professor M Rafiqul Islam

BEZA’s fiscal incentives to attract foreign investment in economic zones: Challenges

The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has recently submitted to the Prime Minister for approval a plan for providing generous fiscal

ICSID: How impartial is the main BIT arbitration forum of Bangladesh?

Most BITs and the model BIT (Art 13) of Bangladesh have preferred the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as its arbitration forum, which warrants a contextual and purposive understanding of ICSID.

International arbitration of FDI disputes

Facing FDI nationalisation in the 1960s-1970s, foreign investors were reluctant to invest without strict protection. Many Third World states felt the stultifying economic effect of reduced FDI and accepted investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) under private international law as the binding FDI protection.

BITs of Bangladesh

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) contractualise agreed upon legal obligations for the safest possible protection to each other's foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the parties' territories.

THE NIKO ARBITRATION Lessons for Bangladesh

The domestic trial of the Niko graft allegations has been continuing for quite some years, now reaching at the apex court in Bangladesh.

Judging apex judges by parliamentarians

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh in 2014 removed the power to impeach apex court judges from the Supreme

May 1, 2020
May 1, 2020

BEZA’s fiscal incentives to attract foreign investment in economic zones: Challenges

The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has recently submitted to the Prime Minister for approval a plan for providing generous fiscal

January 15, 2019
January 15, 2019

ICSID: How impartial is the main BIT arbitration forum of Bangladesh?

Most BITs and the model BIT (Art 13) of Bangladesh have preferred the Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) as its arbitration forum, which warrants a contextual and purposive understanding of ICSID.

December 25, 2018
December 25, 2018

International arbitration of FDI disputes

Facing FDI nationalisation in the 1960s-1970s, foreign investors were reluctant to invest without strict protection. Many Third World states felt the stultifying economic effect of reduced FDI and accepted investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) under private international law as the binding FDI protection.

December 4, 2018
December 4, 2018

BITs of Bangladesh

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) contractualise agreed upon legal obligations for the safest possible protection to each other's foreign direct investments (FDIs) in the parties' territories.

November 20, 2018
November 20, 2018

THE NIKO ARBITRATION Lessons for Bangladesh

The domestic trial of the Niko graft allegations has been continuing for quite some years, now reaching at the apex court in Bangladesh.

July 18, 2017
July 18, 2017

Judging apex judges by parliamentarians

The 16th Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh in 2014 removed the power to impeach apex court judges from the Supreme

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