DR. MOHAMMAD ERSHADUL KARIM
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Law
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Md. Ershadul Karim, LL.B. (Hons.), LL.M. (University of Dhaka), LL.B. (Hons.) (University of London), PhD in Nanotechnology Law and Policy (University of Malaya), has joined the Faculty of Law of University of Malaya as Senior Lecturer after completion of his PhD with the very prestigious Bright Spark Scholarship. Being a passionate researcher and academic, Dr. Karim has widely published in peer-reviewed Journals and presented papers at a number of national and international Conferences in his areas of interest i.e. ‘legal and regulatory aspects of nanotechnology’, ‘emerging technologies and law’, ‘privacy and data protection law’, ‘health and medical law’, ‘legal research’, and ‘Asian and comparative law’, etc. Ershadul authored six books and is the author of Cyber Law in Bangladesh, Kluwer Law International, 2022 (2nd Edition), Environmental Law in Bangladesh, Kluwer Law International, 2022, and co-author of Personal Data Protection Law in Asia (second edition), Thomson and Reuters, 2018. Dr. Ershadul has written Chapters on the Legal System of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Iran, Nepal, Maldives and Myanmar in GlobaLex, New York University, USA. He has also developed the Research Guide on Nanotechnology Law and Policy, and SAARC for the same database. Ershadul has published more than fifty peer-reviewed academic papers and contributed chapters in books published by the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry, Elsevier Inc., SpringerNature and BRILL analysing, inter alia, the relationship between nanomaterials and international environmental law, various legal and regulatory issues in polymer nanocomposite, functionalised nanomaterials, biosensors, consumer nanoproducts, international renewable energy law and nuclear energy law. Dr. Karim managed the National Chapter on Bangladesh for the Yearbook of International Environmental Law published by Oxford University, the United Kingdom between 2013-2020. As an enlisted lawyer with Bangladesh Bar Council and Bangladesh Supreme Court, Dr. Karim was instrumental in developing the Bangladesh Code, a collection of 38 volumes containing all existing Acts of Parliament, Ordinances and President’s Orders in force in Bangladesh between 1836-2006. He was also the Web Administrator and Editor of the first ever online case law database of Bangladesh, Chancery Law Chronicles [www.clcbd.org] for six years. Dr. Karim served as Senior Research Officer at the Technical Support Secretariat of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Women and Children for three years. So far Dr. Karim and his team have received grants of more than USD 1,00,000 to conduct research on different legal and policy issues. He was a member of the research team in the “INDUSTRY-ACADEMIA COLLABORATIVE BLOCKCHAIN-BASED REGULATORY FRAMEWORK RESEARCH PROJECT”. Dr. Karim has been consulted by different national and international organisations including Japan Government's Patent Office through Kyoto Comparative Law Center, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UN Women, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), World Bank Group, European Union, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA), Consumer International, Prime Minister’s Office of the Government of Malaysia and Ministry of Justice, United Arab Emirates, Transparency International, Bangladesh. Ershadul has recently developed interests in exploring the history and philosophy of technologies, technology regulation theories, sociology of technologies, science and technology studies, and is available to supervise research students willing to explore the legal aspects in these areas. |
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UNDERSTANDING GDPR: ITS LEGAL IMPLICATIONS AND RELEVANCE TO SOUTH ASIAN PRIVACY REGIMES
Understanding GDPR: Its Legal Implications and Relevance to South Asian Privacy Regimes
Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence and the Law of Causation: Application, Challenges and Solutions
Noise Pollution in Dhaka and the Constitutional Right to Life
Cyber Law in Bangladesh
Environmental Law in Bangladesh
Cyber Law in Bangladesh
Emerging Technologies in Malaysia and ASEAN: Selected Legal and Policy Issues
The Need to Digitize Sukuk Issuance Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Nanoproducts and Legal Aspects of Consumer Protections: An Evaluation
Biosensors: Ethical, Regulatory, and Legal Issues
Functionalised Nanomaterials: Selected Occupational Health and Safety Concerns