Shah Maruf Introduction The Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction…
Arron N. Honniball Introduction Bangladesh’s Territorial Waters and Maritime Zones (Amendment) Act, 2021 represents a concrete and commendable effort in giving domestic legal effect to the provisions of the United Nations Convention…
Md. Jahidul Islam The idea of the freedom of the sea, like many other values that shaped the law of the sea today, developed in an era when Europeans were fiercely competing with…
Mir Munes Ifty Introduction Historically, pirates have attacked ships with swords and other weapons; while such physical attacks still occur today, the attacks have expanded into the digital domain where computers are used…
Kazi Ayman Awsaf Introduction Rising global sea levels present an urgent and complex challenge to international law, particularly concerning maritime sovereignty. This article directly addresses a critical legal question: Do States have an…
Miraz Hossain Chowdhury In March 2024, I had the extraordinary opportunity to participate in the “International Ocean Human Resource Development Project,” an ocean education program organized by the Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI)…
Md. Moqbul Hosain Introduction The Bay of Bengal, nestled between India to the west, Myanmar and Thailand to the east, and Bangladesh to the north, is a critical ecological treasure. However, amidst…
C.A.M. Al-Wahi The Bay of Bengal, spanning approximately 2.2 million square kilometres, is the largest bay in the world. It is home to nearly 1.4 billion people across its coastal nations. (1) The…
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Ocean Governance Starts Here: BCOLP Leading the Charge
Mentor for the Ocean is a flagship educational training service program of the Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy
On 14 August 2025, the Bangladesh Centre for Ocean Law and Policy (BCOLP), in collaboration with the Department of Law
We are excited to announce a month-long training workshop on the Law of the Sea, with a specific focus on
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