Bonosree Rani

Bonosree Rani, a Commonwealth Scholar, is currently serving as a Doctoral Researcher on environment and outer space law at SOAS University of London. 

Her research examines the impacts of space activities on environmental rights and explores the potentials of environmental justice to empower marginalized and non-spacefaring communities in order to participate in space governance, enforce sustainability standards and environmental rights, and hold space actors accountable. Earlier, Bonosree completed her LLB (Honours) and LLM degrees from the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. 

For her outstanding results (securing first position in the Faculty of Law) in LLB (Honours) and LLM examinations, she received a few academic awards including Prime Minister Gold Medal 2016, Bangabandhu (Rajshahi University) Gold Medals 2015 and 2016, and Rajshahi University Merit Scholarship 2016. She started her academic career with joining Varendra University as a Lecturer of law and later moved to her alma mater—the University of Rajshahi in 2018. 

Following this, Bonosree pursued her second LLM in Law, Development and Globalisation at SOAS University of London with receiving the prestigious Commonwealth Shared Scholarship 2020-2021. During her LLM, studying laws relating to environment, climate change, natural resources and global commons, she undertook research under the supervision of Professor Gina Heathcote for her thesis and critically examined the prospects and challenges of adopting Transboundary Marine Spatial Planning in the Bay of Bengal. 

After this postgraduate study, Bonosree joined Jahangirnagar University, and was involved in and passionate about research and teaching in public international law and law of global commons discourses (currently on study leave). She has published a good number of journal articles so far in peer reviewed journals on various aspects of international law, environmental law, climate change, natural resource management and global commons governance. She has also completed a couple of research projects funded by the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh.

• Law and Globalisation (with focus on Climate Change Policy and International Environmental Law),
• Laws relating to Sustainable Development (with focus on Sustainable Management of Natural Resources,
• Global Commons, and Maritime Resource),
• Post-colonial Effects on Law.