Muhammad Raqib

This project investigates how victims of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial violence, along with their families and lawyers, navigate the legal space in post-revolution Bangladesh. At the onset of Bangladesh’s monsoon revolution, the interim government established an independent Enforced Disappearance Inquiry Commission and reformed its International Crimes Tribunal Act to investigate and prosecute nearly two thousand cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial violence. Approaching law as a statemaking process, this research will explore the way law would make legible, institutionalize, and therefore entangle in the post-revolutionary political settlement. “Law-Making as Statemaking” aims to illuminate life-affirming legal institutions and the building of a radical futurity for victims and their families.