Publication of Dr. S M Masum Billah
Peer-reviewed journal articles and invited book chapters
Book/s
S M Masum Billah Ainer Vab o Ovab (In Bangla, trans: The Art and Inert of Law) (Palal, Dhaka, 2019).
S M Masum Billah The Politics of Land Law: Poverty and Land Legislation in Bangladesh (University Press Limited, Dhaka, Forthcoming).
S M Masum Billah (co-edited with Prof Mizanur Rahman and Barrister Tapas Kanti Baul) Human Rights and Rebellious Lawyering (ELCOP Yearbook of Human Rights, Dhaka, 2019).
Book Chapters/Contribution in Research Publications
S M Masum Billah “Bangladesh: Public Law, Religious Freedom and Regulating Religious Sentiment” in Li-ann Thio and Jaclyn L Neo (eds) Religious Offences in Common Law Asia: Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice (Hart Publishing, London, Forthcoming).
S M Masum Billah, “Property, Poverty and Constitution” (ELCOP Yearbook of Human Rights, Dhaka, 2019).
Shakhawat Hossain Shamim and SM Masum Billah “Judges in Social Media: What Implications for the Judicial System” in Mizanur Rahman, Rahmat Ullah, Rumana Islam (eds) Human Rights and Digital Age (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2018).
S M Masum Billah "Can there be Constitutions for Women Too" in Mizanur Rahman & Rahmat Ullah (eds) Human Rights and Religion (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2017).
S M Masum Billah “How Eminent is Eminent Domain: A Critique of Bangladeshi Acquisition Law” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Human Rights and Displacement (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2016).
S M Masum Billah “Can Secularism and State Religion go Together” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Human Rights and Religion (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2014).
S M Masum Billah “Human Rights Education in Bangladesh: A Pro-Poor Approach” in Kamran Hashemi and Linda Briskman (eds) NAM Yearbook on Human Rights and Cultural Diversity (NAM Center for Human Rights and Cultural Diversity, Tehran, 2013).
S M Masum Billah “Dalit Egalite” in Mizanur Rahman and Md Rahmat Ullah (eds) Human Rights and Critically Disadvantaged People (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2012).
S M Masum Billah “Sovereign Rights Concept under UNCLOS III Revisited” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Human Rights and Sovereignty over Natural Resources (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2010).
S M Masum Billah and Mizanur Rahman “War Crimes and Genocide 71: Bringing the Perpetrators to Justice” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Post-conflict Justice, Peace and Human Rights (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2009).
S M Masum Billah “Political Empowerment of Women in Bangladesh: Constitutional and Human Rights Issues” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Human Rights and Development (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2008).
S M Masum Billah “In Quest of Democracy: Anti-Corruption Drive, Rule of Law, Due Process of Law Interface” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Human Rights and Corruption (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2007).
S M Masum Billah “Juddhporadh, Shanti O Manobotar Biruddhe Oporadher Bichare Bangladesh Rashter Jobabdihita” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Juddhaporadhider Bichar: Ekti Aini Onushondhan (Palal, Dhaka, 2007).
S M Masum Billah “Right to Privacy: Philosophical Prelude, Development and Challenges” (7th Human Rights Summer School Publication, Dhaka, 2006).
S M Masum Billah “Non-state Actors Being the Prism: Need for Judicial Activism in Bangladesh to Nurture Human Rights” in Mizanur Rahman (ed) Human Rights and Non-State Actors (ELCOP, Dhaka, 2005).
Journal Articles
S M Masum Billah “Land Law Reform and Poverty: Bangladesh’s Sharecropping Law Revisited” (2017) 6(1) International Journal of Legal Studies and Research 55.
S M Masum Billah “Fairness in the War Trial: What to Buy from the International Practice of Alibi” (2016) 2 Bangladesh Journal of Dalit and Minority 10.
S M Masum Billah “Rethinking Secularism Under Bangladesh Constitution” (2014) 1 (1) Jagannath University Law Journal 40.
S M Masum Billah “Lawless Laws: Land Law and Empowerment of the People” (2013) 13 Rajshahi University Law Journal 30.
Professor Dr Mizanur Rahman and S M Masum Billah “Prosecuting War Crimes in Domestic Level: The Case of Bangladesh (2010) 1 Northern University Journal of Law 15.
S M Masum Billah “Making Constitutionalism Smooth: Is Advisory Jurisdiction a Catalyst” (2008) 19 (1) Dhaka University Journal of Law 131.
S M Masum Billah and Khaleda Parven “Proclamation of Independence: The Unsung Document on the Way of Constitutionalism in Bangladesh” (2005) 5 (3) Bangladesh Journal of National and Foreign Affairs 70.
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