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This volume provides a comprehensive legal examination of BIMSTEC s evolving institutional framework, critically analyzing its role in fostering regional cooperation and partnership in alignment with SDG17. The book explores how legal frameworks can serve as mechanisms for strengthening regional integration, enhancing policy coherence, and promoting multi-stakeholder partnerships across BIMSTEC member states. By engaging with legal scholarship and comparative regional models, it evaluates how BIMSTEC can facilitate cross-border trade, investment, and regulatory harmonisation to create a more interconnected and resilient economic bloc. The chapters collectively address the legal dimensions of SDG 17 by examining BIMSTEC s potential in fostering public-private partnerships, improving regional governance structures, and establishing inclusive legal frameworks for sustainable development. Key themes include legal mechanisms for trade and investment integration, transnational crime cooperation, refugee governance, environmental stewardship, etc. The volume further delves into sector-specific legal reforms that can enhance institutional collaboration and knowledge-sharing within the BIMSTEC framework, drawing lessons from other regional organizations such as ASEAN and the EU.
With contributions from leading legal scholars, policymakers, and jurists, this book is an essential resource for those engaged in international law, regional governance, and sustainable development. By centering its analysis on SDG 17, it offers actionable legal insights into how BIMSTEC can strengthen institutional partnerships, advance collective decision-making, and reinforce the legal infrastructure necessary for achieving long-term regional cooperation.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Strengthening BIMSTEC's Legal Framework for Regional Cooperation and Sustainable Development.- Chapter 2. Can BIMSTEC Enable Trade and Investment Integration in South Asia?.- Chapter 3. Prioritising Climate Resilient Development in the BIMSTEC Region.- Chapter 4. The BIMSTEC Conundrum: Myth and Reality for a New International Legal Order in Asia.- Chapter 5. Scope of Nepal's Enabling Legislations in Implementing Human Rights: Prospects and Challenges.- Chapter 6. Paradox of The Philosopher King: BIMSTEC at A Crossroads - Identity Over Form?.- Chapter 7. Harmonising India's Patent Practices with BIMSTEC Frameworks for Enhanced Public Health.- Chapter 8. Collective Growth in Aviation and Space Sectors: Can BIMSTEC Provide a Roadmap?.- Chapter 9. Exploring the Idea of Climate Justice from the Lens of TWAIL: Nepal's Leap Forward and Incessant Challenges.- Chapter 10. Envisioning the Environment as A
Technical Barrier to Trade for BIMSTEC.- Chapter 11. Legal Echoes Across Regional Seas: Drawing Environmental Stewardship Insights from the South China Sea and Other UNCLOS Tribunals to Address BIMSTEC's Environmental Challenges.- Chapter 12. Leveraging the Ship Recycling Industry for a Sustainable Blue Economy in the BIMSTEC Region: The Case of India and Bangladesh.- Chapter 13. Transnational Crime Trends, Mutual Legal Assistance and Legal Framework Among BIMSTEC Member States: A Critique.- Chapter 14. Refugee Law and Regional Governance: Assessing BIMSTEC's Role in Migration and Protection.- Chapter 15. Revitalizing BIMSTEC for Regional Economic Integration: Fresh Perspectives.- Chapter 16. BIMSTEC and International Criminal Jurisdiction of Activities in Outer Space: An Opportunity for Advancement Through Legal Pluralism.
About the author
Nirmal Kanti Chakrabarti is Vice Chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences since 2019. He was earlier affiliated to University of Calcutta's Department of Law and School of Law, KIIT University (Bhubaneshwar, India). Prof. Chakrabarti has so far authored seven books and published more than 100 articles and research papers in various national and international journals. His areas of research interest are criminology and criminal justice. He has successfully guided more than twenty PhD scholars, mainly in the field of criminal law and criminal justice. He has contributed to sponsored research projects and collaborative projects with Ministry of Law & Justice, Govt of West Bengal, Ford Foundation, World Justice Project of ABA-USA, UNDP, UGC, ICSSR, etc. In 2001, the Indian Society of Criminology conferred a fellowship to Dr.Chakrabarti for his contribution to the field of criminology. In 2017, Prof. Chakrabarti was awarded the Prof. K. Chockalingam Award by the Indian Society of Victimology for his contribution to victimology in India. He was awarded a Research Scholarship by the Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, in 2017 and 2018.
Saheli Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of International Law at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), India. Her areas of research specialization include international refugee law and international criminal law, and she has published extensively in these areas. She was the youngest delegate at the 'Youth for Peace' workshop in 2017 at Thailand, hosted by Asian Resource Foundation (ARF). She is currently serving as the Director of the International Office, WBNUJS.
Amritha V. Shenoy is Associate Professor at Kathmandu School of Law, Nepal (2018-present). Her area of interest is the history of international law, the law of diplomacy, etc. She holds Ph.D.-MPhil. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) and LL.B. (Mahatma Gandhi University). She has various publications to her credit in reputed journals.
