Law and Human Rights

The book “Corporate Tax Law and Practice” (first published in 2015 by Mullick & Brothers) is a leading practitioner’s text on the corporate tax laws of Bangladesh. The second edition of the book has been expanded with the introduction of topics on the concept of source of income, interaction between international tax and Bangladesh tax laws, dealing with the concept of permanent establishment, the problematic question of residency in view of COVID-19 and issues of tax administration.

The book is the first of its kind empirical study of terrorists based in Bangladesh focusing on the process of radicalization they underwent, the motivations they fostered, the ideology they held and pursued along with youth vulnerabilities which lead them to the path of violence adoption. It has been written based on the data collected from 51 terrorist suspects, 14 family members, 11 Law enforcement officials and 15 experts of various disciplines along with secondary data.

Legal Stories of Life is a compilation of Barrister Omar H. Khan’s write-ups mostly published in the Daily Star in the popular `Your Advocate’ column over the span of last one decade. The writes-ups consist of legal solutions to real-life problems of people from various backgrounds on diverse issues, which the author has termed as the `stories’. The objective behind publication of this book is to raise the legal awareness level amongst the people. The readers shall be able to find solutions to most of their day to day legal issues and concerns.

This ethnography seeks to understand the connections between livelihoods, risk, capital and migration by using a framework which considers not only economic implications but more importantly, the social and cultural underpinnings of the phenomena under study. Drawing on the lived experiences, ideas, beliefs and attitude of men and women from two migration-intensive villages in Comilla, Bangladesh, the study attempts to explore the causal links between lack of security in people’s lives and livelihoods and overseas labour migration.