Between the Bench and the Bar stands a third figure the public rarely sees: the jurist. Jurists write the books from which judges are taught, sit on the commissions that redraft old statutes, and ask the questions practice is too busy to ask. What is law, who does it serve, and when does it deserve obedience? In this series The Honourable interviews legal scholars, law reformers and jurisprudential thinkers from Bangladesh and abroad, on the ideas beneath the cases. Interviews are conducted in person or in writing, and every published interview is approved by the interviewee before release.