Mst. Nila Khatun
Environment and Sustainability Fellow
Senior Judicial Magistrate, Bangladesh Judicial Service
Mst. Nila Khatun brings a unique blend of experience in the legal field, encompassing roles as a judge, researcher, and scholar. Mst. Nila Khatun has been serving the Bangladesh Judicial Service (BJS) since 2018. Currently, she is a Senior Judicial Magistrate in the BJS.
As a recipient of the prestigious DAAD scholarship, awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service, she pursued her Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Intellectual Property and Competition Law at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) in Germany. During her time there, she also interned at Brandstock Services GmbH (a Questel company). Additionally, she holds an LL.B. and an LL.M. from the University of Dhaka.
Mst. Khatun’s research and academic interests focus on the nexus between Intellectual Property, environmental protection, and sustainability. She is a published researcher, having contributed to the Journal of Bangladesh Judicial Administration Training Institute (JATI) and authored a chapter in the internationally published book “Rivers Unbound: Exploring Social Currents, Legal Tides, and Stories of Flow”, published by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Ms. Khatun is an active member of several professional bodies, including the International Association of Women Judges, the Bangladesh Women Judges Association (BWJA), and the Bangladesh Judicial Service Association (BJSA).