Bangladesh Law Review (BDLR), an online law journal based on http://bdlawreview.org/, started its journey on 21 February 2015. The significance of research, especially in the sphere of law, can never be over emphasised. Legal education, now days, has been attracting the youngsters in whole nation. Active citizenry is developing to pace up with the spread of information technology. Institutions are equally expected to be equipped with modernization. Hence, BDLR comes with a promise to facilitate the brilliant minds as well as to drive development in practical field. It is to be noted that the concept of BDLR is basically masterminded by a promising professional from justice-sector of Bangladesh who contributes for law and our rights page of the Daily Star regularly.

The legal research in Bangladesh to a greater extent suffers from originality crisis which hampers the growth of law and order state of this country. People's confidence over the justice system is deteriorating day by day. The sense of non compliance regarding any obligation is increasing since the law is failing to address the demands of society. In the absence of contextual interpretation based on empirical research, the meaning of law is often misunderstood which vitiates the ultimate purpose of law. 

In addition, the legal curricula of Bangladesh have tremendously failed to foster the importance of legal writing. Legal education, devoid of legal research and writing, does not sufficiently respond to the needs of modern social order.  In this backdrop, BDLR aspires to foster legal scholarship with a view to addressing the linkage between law and individuals, law and society, law and development and law and politics.

With three broad principles namely,

- Vision to press the change,

- Motivation to help legal minds unleash their potentials

- And fashion to diffuse legal knowledge and disseminate information

BDLR envisages creating a legal platform which essentially addresses the respective need of all the stakeholders and branches of law influencing statutory law reform with a view to facilitating the common people in terms of access to justice.

BDLR, with all of its contemporary motivation, hopes that the executive, legislative and judiciary would highly be benefited by this academic endeavour. It is expected that BDLR would be a unique one and would act as a catalyst for outstanding academic resource. It is hoped that it would attract a large number of readerships.

The writers are co-founders of BDLR.