Dr Zahidul Islam is a lawyer practicing in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh since
2007. His main practice areas include constitutional and administrative law, criminal
justice, employment law, human rights law, and family laws in Bangladesh.
Dr Zahidul Islam is also an independent legal anthropologist, who did his PhD in law and
anthropology from the Centre for the Study of Law & Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi, India. As a legal anthropologist, he works in the areas of rural
justice, informal dispute resolution, legal pluralism, criminal justice culture in the
lower courts, and family justice in Bangladesh.
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