The University Grants Commission of Bangladesh gives away UGC Award every year to select university teachers for their outstanding contribution to research and publications. I received the UGC Award 2014 in the Arts, Humanities, Law and Education branch for publishing a research article in the erstwhile Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law (MqJICEL). The Commission introduced the Award in 1980 to encourage fundamental research and publications of university teachers.