[6] The think tank is housed in the Dhanmondi residence of former British Bengal premier and Pakistan PM Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.
BILIA can also be compared with the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, which was set up in 1947 and modelled after Chatham House.
The conference was presided over by Robert Kurt Woetzel while Kamal Hossain, as Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, delivered a keynote address.
Prominent lawyer and human rights activist Salma Sobhan, who was the first woman barrister of Bangladesh and Pakistan, was a Research Fellow at BILIA.
[9] The law journal has been edited by Shahdeen Malik, Professor Mizanur Rahman and Justice Naimuddin Ahmed among others.
The Dhanmondi residence of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, which housed the Pakistan Law Institute, was also retained.