ARPEETA SHAMS MIZAN Dhaka University Profile

Short Biography:

I am a socio legal analyst. My areas of research interest include law and society, sociolegal studies, colonial legal history, human rights and religion. I completed LLM from Harvard Law School in 2015. I was fellow at the Swedish Institute in 2013-2014, and received a Diploma in Human Rights, Democracy ...

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Degree Name	Group/Major Subject	Board/Institute	Country	Passing Year
Masters	Law	Harvard Law School	United States	2015
Post Graduate Diploma	Human Rights and Democracy	Swedish Institute	Sweden	2013
Masters	Law	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	2012
Post Graduate Diploma	French	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	2011
Bachelor	Law	University of Dhaka	Bangladesh	2011

Title	Organization	Location	From Date	To Date
Certified as a Grade B Mediator	Indian Institute of Arbitration and Mediation IIAM	Kochi, India	05, Aug 2021
Legal Analyst (Bangladesh)	iProbono (UK)	Dhaka	15, May 2018
Consultant	International organization for Migration IOM	Dhaka	01, Sep 2017	30-11-2018
Human Rights Protection officer	Relief International Bangladesh	Dhaka	15, Aug 2015	15-10-2015
c ase officer	Greater Boston Legal Services, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic	Boston	01, Feb 2015	28-05-2015
Editor	Harvard Human Rights Journal	Cambridge, MA, USA	01, Jan 2015	31-03-2015

Research Interest

Subject	Description	Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator)
Areas of interest:	Law and Society studies, Cultural rights (International Human Rights law), Identity politics, Feminist theory of Law, Family Law, Islamic Law
Human Rights, Cultural Rights, Colonial Legal History, Gender, Clinical Legal Education, Religion

Project/Research Supervision

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Research Project Report/Other

Simulation project for Integrating Youth through Community Engagement (SPIYCE)

Self

Muhammad Rezaur Rahman

24 Students from various Bangladeshi Universities

Project/Research Work

Subject	Project Name	Source of Fund	From Date	To Date	Collaboration
No project/research work is found

Invited Talk

I was the Key Note Speaker at the Seminar on Instilling Human Rights Education in the Ethos of Bangladesh Police: A Way Forward for Bangabandhu's People Friendly Police at the Police Staff College, bangladesh in December 2020.

Speaker, TEDxNorthSouthUniversity, Dhaka 2017

The title of the talk was Inclusive solution for the society:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MkxwF4xwTI

KolpoKoushol is about promoting interdisciplinary ideas and projects related to it. It is a platform for students and alumni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to engage with the young minds of Bangladesh to inspire, develop and deploy new ideas and possibilities. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at

SL	Collaboration & Membership Name	Type	Membership Year	Expire Year
1	Svenska Instituet	Alumni	2014	Life Time
2	Global Legal Empowerment Network- Namati	Alumni	2017	Life Time
3	Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE)	General member	2019
4	Global Shapers, Dhaka Hub, World Economic Forum	Member	2019

Book Section
1	Arpeeta Shams Mizan "Is Domestic Violence only Battery?." Street Law and Public Legal Education: A Collection of Best Practices from around the world in honour of Ed O’ Brien. David McQuid-Mason JUTA, 2019 . View More

Journal Article
1	Arpeeta Shams Mizan : Invisible to the Law: COVID-19 and the legal consciousness of persons with disabilities in Bangladesh, Journal of Disability and the Global South , vol.8 , no.1 , pp.1892-1909 , 2021 . View More
2	Arpeeta Shams Mizan, Sayeed Hossain Sarwar and Muhammad Rezaur Rahman : Challenges of Taking Human Rights Fact Finding Lessons Out of Classrooms: Lessons from Bangladesh, Journal of Indian Law and Society , vol.10 , 2020 . View More
3	Arpeeta Shams Mizan and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed : Silencing the Minority through Domination in Social Media Platform: Impact on the Pluralistic Bangladeshi Society, Human Rights in Digital Age (ELCOP Journal of Human Rights) , 2018 . View More
4	Arpeeta Shams Mizan : 4. Continuing the Colonial Legacy in the Legislative Drafting in Bangladesh: Impact on the Legal Consciousness and the Rule of Law and Human Rights, International Journal of Legislative Drafting and Law Reform , vol.5 , no.1 , 2017 . View More

Award Type	Title	Year	Country	Description
National	EMK Center Small Grants	2019	Bangladesh	Award of 400000 BDT for conducting human rights fact finding simulation project on Trans community and the Harijan community in Dhaka city
Local	CALS Research Grant, Centre for Advanced Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Dhaka	2019	Bangladesh	A grant of 50,000 BDT for conducting research on the impact of river erosion on domestic violence and other forms of GBV in coastal Bangladesh. Jointly received award with Dr. Nahid Rezwana, Department of Geography, University of Dhaka.
National	UGC Gold Medal	2017	Bangladesh
International	Harvard Law School Summer Fellowship	2015	United States	Fellowship to study colonial legacy of legislative drafting under Historian Professor Samuel Moyn, currently the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University.
National	NHRC Research Grant	2014	Bangladesh	Research grant to study the Eductaion policies affecting the right to education in Bangladesh. Jointly received with Muhammad Rezaur Rahman.