Meher Nigar
Assistant Professor, Department of Law
Premier University, Chattogram
mehernigarmadhu@gmail.com
Meher Nigar has been serving as a faculty in the Department of Law, Premier University, Chattogram, since April, 2008. Before that she worked as Foreign Visiting Researcher (Separation of Judiciary: Comparative Study), at University of the Ryukyus, Japan for one year. She has also contributed a chapter named ‘Political Subordination of Khasi Community’, in the book ‘Combating the Khasi Uprooting: Humanity Cries’. She has been awarded MPhil Degree in 2017 from University of Chittagong. At present, she is pursuing PhD on interrelation between gender-based violence, women empowerment and law.
At
Doctoral Program, research topic is “Revisiting the Legal Regime Addressing
the Challenges of Women Empowerment: A Study in Perspective of Gender-based
Violence in Bangladesh”.
Research
undertaken on “Liability Regime in Environmental Law: National and
International Perspectives’ as fulfillment of the Degree of Master of
Philosophy.
1. Nigar,
M. (2022). Towards an International Environmental Criminal
Law Regime. The Chittagong University
Journal of Law, (Accepted),23, University of Chittagong.
2. Nigar, M. (2018). Revisiting the
International Civil Liability Regime for Transboundary Pollution by Nuclear,
Oil and Hazardous waste. Sri Lanka
Journal of International Law, 26, 53-77, The University of Colombo.
3. Nigar,
M. (2017).
Environmental liability and global commons: a critical study. The International Journal of Law and
Management, 60 (2), 435-451, Emerald Publishing.
4. Nigar,
M. (2016). Right to Information (RTI) in Bangladesh:
Looking Within and Beyond. Indian Journal of Law and Justice, 7, 124-139,
University of North Bengal.
5. Nigar,
M. (2016).
Liability Regime under Environmental Laws of Bangladesh: a Critical Review. Premier Critical Perspectives, 2(1),
135-152, Premier University.
6. Nigar,
M. (2015). Fatwa
violence against women in Bangladesh: A socio-legal approach. The Chittagong University Journal of Law,
XX, 03-118, Chittagong University.
7. Nigar,
M. and Urmi,
H.N. (2009). Doctrine of Legitimate Expectation
in Administrative Law: A Bangladesh Perspective. The Chittagong University Journal of Law,
14, 50-70, Chittagong University.
8. Liza,
M. and Nigar, M.
(2004). Chapter -5, Political Subordination of Khasi Community. In M.
Rahman (Ed.), Combating the Khasi
Uprooting: Humanity Cries (pp. 195-231). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Empowerment
through Law of the Common People (ELCOP). ISBN 984-8295-03-8
Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law, Women rights, Women empowerment.