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Preeti Kana Sikder

Preeti Kana Sikder

Assistant Professor

Department of Law
Faculty of Security & Strategic Studies (FSSS)

preeti@bup.edu.bd

BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF PROFESSIONALS
Mirpur Cantonment, Dhaka-1216

Biography

Preeti Kana Sikder has been working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law in Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) since January 2023. After graduating from the Department of Law, University of Dhaka, Ms. Sikder also completed her LLM from the same university. She was a co-founder and Managing Editor at Dhaka Law Review (DHLR). Later on she pursued her Masters in Environmental Science and Management from BUP in order to incorporate scientific understanding of environmental laws in her research and teaching. 

Right before joining the department, she was serving as an Assistant Professor of the Department of Law & Justice, Jahangirnagar University (JU) where she held a permanent post since 2016. During her six-years-long service period at JU she worked as part of the editorial board of Jahangirnagar University Journal of Law, besides working as coach and co-advisor of JULS Mooting and Debating Club. Prior to that she was employed as a Lecturer of Law at University of Asia Pacific (UAP) and also worked as a Legal Research Assistant at Bangladesh Institute of Law and International Affairs (BILIA).

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Education
S.S.C, YWCA Higher Secondary Girls' School
H.S.C, Dhaka City College
Honors, University of Dhaka - LLB
Masters, Bangladesh University of Professionals - MESM
Masters, University of Dhaka - LLM

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Journal Publication

1.

The Role of Comparative Law in the Making of the Constitution of Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh, Jahangirnagar University Journal of Law, V,  pp.85-106, 2017.

2.

Climate Change Reparations: An Analysis under International Law, Bangladesh Journal of Law, 18, 1 & 2, pp.131 - 148, 2020, ISSN 1609-3593

3. Medical Waste Management and Processing System in Post-COVID Bangladesh: A Legal Analysis, Jahangirnagar University Journal of Law (ISSN: 2664-1054), VIII, pp.95-112, 2020

4. Achieving Environmental Justice in Bangladesh: Impediments and Prospects, Chittagong University Journal of Law, XXIV, pp. 87-106, 2023

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Conference Papers

1. From Utopia to Apology: Prevention of Environmental Crimes in Bangladesh, 3rd International eConference on Criminology and Forensic Science in the Global South, Department of Criminology, University of Dhaka, August 2021

2.

Vulture Extinction in Bangladesh: Conservation Measures Rekindled, The International Conference on South Asian Perspectives on Environmental Protection and Forest Rights: Emerging Trends and Practices, March 2023, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30782.97604

3. Political Stability for Environmental Protection, River Talkie by Waterkeepers Bangladesh, 27 December 2023

4. A Comparative Study of Climate-Development Integration in National Development Policies: Insights from Bangladesh, 5th Annual International Conference on Comparative Law, Co - Organized by: Amity Law School, Noida [Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India] & School of Business & Law, [Edith Cowan University, Western Australia], 9 - 10 February 2024

5. Compliance of SDG 13 in Achieving Environmental Justice: Perspective from Bangladesh, International Conference on Environmental Justice 2024, co-organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India, Commonwealth Legal Education Association, NAPSIPAG Disaster Research Group (NDRG-2020), Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Italy, and Lewis & Clark Law School, United States as part of The Support to Justice Sector Project (JURE), 31st August and 7th September, 2024

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Books

1. Tanzim Afroz, Preeti Kana Sikder & Mostafa M. Naser, 'The Climate Change-Development Nexus: A New Development Landscape for Bangladesh', in Mahatab Uddin (ed), International Law, Climate Change and Bangladesh (Springer, 2024)

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Researchs

1. Environmental Law and Policy

2. Environmental Management

3. Sustainable Development

4. International Law

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Awards

1. Training workshop on 'The Use of Objectivity in Research', Centre of Excellence in Teaching & Learning-Jahangirnagar University, March, 2018

2. Workshop on “Outcome Based Education in Curriculum Development”, 25-26 October, 2021, Organized by IQAC, JU

3. Workshop on Curriculum Design, organised by IQAC-JU, 25-27 June, 2018

4. Workshop on 'Cloud Computing', organised by IQAC-JU, July, 2018

5. Workshop on "Academic Database Management” organised by IQAC-JU, 30 July, 2018

6. Workshop on "Use of SPSS in Research Methodology” organised by IQAC-JU, 23 December, 2018

7. Workshop on "Constraints in OBE (Outcome Based Education) Curriculum Development”, organised by IQAC-JU, 24 November, 2022

8. Workshop on "Preparing an Outcome Based Education Curriculum", organised by FSSS, 24 September, 2023

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Courses

1. LAW5102 - Comparative Constitutional Law

2. LLM5301 - International Trade Law

3. LAW4804 - Legal Drafting and Conveyancing

4. IR 3524 - International Law

5. LAW5208 - International Criminal Law

6. LLM5204 - Law of the Sea

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

S.S.C, YWCA Higher Secondary Girls' School
H.S.C, Dhaka City College
Honors, University of Dhaka - LLB
Masters, Bangladesh University of Professionals - MESM
Masters, University of Dhaka - LLM

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

1.

The Role of Comparative Law in the Making of the Constitution of Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh, Jahangirnagar University Journal of Law, V,  pp.85-106, 2017.

2.

Climate Change Reparations: An Analysis under International Law, Bangladesh Journal of Law, 18, 1 & 2, pp.131 - 148, 2020, ISSN 1609-3593

3. Medical Waste Management and Processing System in Post-COVID Bangladesh: A Legal Analysis, Jahangirnagar University Journal of Law (ISSN: 2664-1054), VIII, pp.95-112, 2020

4. Achieving Environmental Justice in Bangladesh: Impediments and Prospects, Chittagong University Journal of Law, XXIV, pp. 87-106, 2023

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

1. From Utopia to Apology: Prevention of Environmental Crimes in Bangladesh, 3rd International eConference on Criminology and Forensic Science in the Global South, Department of Criminology, University of Dhaka, August 2021

2.

Vulture Extinction in Bangladesh: Conservation Measures Rekindled, The International Conference on South Asian Perspectives on Environmental Protection and Forest Rights: Emerging Trends and Practices, March 2023, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.30782.97604

3. Political Stability for Environmental Protection, River Talkie by Waterkeepers Bangladesh, 27 December 2023

4. A Comparative Study of Climate-Development Integration in National Development Policies: Insights from Bangladesh, 5th Annual International Conference on Comparative Law, Co - Organized by: Amity Law School, Noida [Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India] & School of Business & Law, [Edith Cowan University, Western Australia], 9 - 10 February 2024

5. Compliance of SDG 13 in Achieving Environmental Justice: Perspective from Bangladesh, International Conference on Environmental Justice 2024, co-organised by the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jindal Global Law School, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India, Commonwealth Legal Education Association, NAPSIPAG Disaster Research Group (NDRG-2020), Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania, Italy, and Lewis & Clark Law School, United States as part of The Support to Justice Sector Project (JURE), 31st August and 7th September, 2024

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

1. Tanzim Afroz, Preeti Kana Sikder & Mostafa M. Naser, 'The Climate Change-Development Nexus: A New Development Landscape for Bangladesh', in Mahatab Uddin (ed), International Law, Climate Change and Bangladesh (Springer, 2024)

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Environmental Law and Policy Environmental Management Sustainable Development International Law

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

Training workshop on 'The Use of Objectivity in Research', Centre of Excellence in Teaching & Learning-Jahangirnagar University, March, 2018 Workshop on “Outcome Based Education in Curriculum Development”, 25-26 October, 2021, Organized by IQAC, JU Workshop on Curriculum Design, organised by IQAC-JU, 25-27 June, 2018 Workshop on 'Cloud Computing', organised by IQAC-JU, July, 2018 Workshop on "Academic Database Management” organised by IQAC-JU, 30 July, 2018 Workshop on "Use of SPSS in Research Methodology” organised by IQAC-JU, 23 December, 2018 Workshop on "Constraints in OBE (Outcome Based Education) Curriculum Development”, organised by IQAC-JU, 24 November, 2022 Workshop on "Preparing an Outcome Based Education Curriculum", organised by FSSS, 24 September, 2023

Last Updated: 08 May 2025

LAW5102 - Comparative Constitutional Law LLM5301 - International Trade Law LAW4804 - Legal Drafting and Conveyancing IR 3524 - International Law LAW5208 - International Criminal Law LLM5204 - Law of the Sea

Last Updated: 08 May 2025