About ‘South Asia Law Affairs’

Welcome to the ‘South Asia Law Affairs’ blog. The blog is a common platform for contributing to legal scholarship to International Law and South Asia. The name of the blog reiterates the passionate attachment among International Affairs, International Law and South Asia. Earlier, the blog was familiar as ‘South Asia Canteen’. However, the blog url would remain the same, i.e,

https://southasiacanteen.wordpress.com/

Blogmaster: Mohammad Rubaiyat Rahman

For comment, query and submission, please mail:

writeup4rr[at]gmail[dot]com

 

Groundwater Governance, Int’l Law and Bangladesh

Discussion on Blue Economy

Irregular Maritime Migration in the Indian Ocean

Kilo Impact in the Bay of Bengal

So You’re a Grad Student Now? Maybe You Should Do This (-Professor Gary King)

Professor Gary King

Note: A MUST READ for graduate students belonging to any discipline, if YOU ARE REALLY DETERMINED TO BE A SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC.

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Congratulations! You’ve made it to graduate school. This means you’re in a select group, about to embark on a great adventure to learn about the world and teach us all some new things. This also means you obviously know how to follow rules. So I have five for you — not counting the obvious one that to learn new things you’ll need to break some rules. After all, to be a successful academic, you’ll need to cut a new path, and so if you do exactly what your advisors and I did, you won’t get anywhere near as far since we already did it. So here are some rules, but break some of them, perhaps including this one.

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The write up is available in Prof. Gary King’s website

 

Sea Standoff in the Strait of Hormuz

CrunchOutline: Reclaiming the Indo-Pacific Narrative

Sunny Asian century versus dark Indo-Pacific

What Can Malaysia Do With 2 Submarines?

Asia’s Submarine Race

The long and winding way to the Indo-Pacific

Rise of the Bengal Tigers: The Growing Strategic Importance of the Bay of Bengal

Grab from Web: ‘Book Review: Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century’

Human Rights and Scimitar of Terrorism: Insight South Asia

SSRN Link:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2687709

International Conference on India and Indian Ocean

Source: India and the Indian Ocean

Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region

Source: Strategic Channel SSN

Speaker: Vice Admiral (retd.) Vijay Shankar

Maritime Security at the Delhi Dialogue VII

Source: Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, India

 

 

Indian Ocean: Battle for Supremacy

Source: Rajya Shabha TV

 

Grab from Web: Afghanistan is Neither Pro-India Nor Pro-Pakistan

Link:

http://sankalpgurjar.blogspot.in/2015/04/afghanistan-is-niether-pro-india-nor.html

 

Call for Papers – ‘ELCOP Year Book on Human Rights’ [16th HRSS]

Empowerment through Law of the Common People (ELCOP) is going to organize the 16th Human Rights Summer School (HRSS) on ‘Human Rights and Terrorism’ in the month of October 2015. Carrying forward the legacy of HRSS, the ELCOP has initiated efforts for the 16^th HRSS Publication. The HRSS maintaining theme-line, “Human Rights and Terrorism” may be construed in the following subheadings: