Climate Change Legislation in Pakistan – A Road to Nowhere Pakistan’s romancing of climate change action spans over two decades from the first time it ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on…
Fragmented Framework Of Legal Education In Pakistan The legal education system of Pakistan is in a state of serious crisis. This is evident as we have been unable to layout a clear…
Pakistan’s Juvenile Justice Pakistan is a signatory of the Convention on the Rights of Child (CRC). Article 37 of the CRC states: States Parties shall ensure that: (a) No child shall be…
Internet Of Things And Law INTRODUCTION Invariably, the latest technologies throw up challenges and opportunities; Internet of Things (IoT) is the latest of these technologies, which is developing at a fast pace…
Can Advisors and Special Assistants be Accorded the Status of Ministers? By way of introduction, parliamentary democracy, federalism and provincial autonomy are concepts that are deeply embedded within the constitutional fabric of…
Is The Misuse of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law Wiping Out Its Religious Minorities? The foundation of Pakistan was meant to provide the Muslims of India with a homeland in which they could reside…
Has the Caspian Sea’s Legal Status Been Resolved? Caspian Sea, the largest inland sea, is located between the Caucasus Mountains and the vast flat land of Central Asia. It is surrounded by conflicting…
NAB vs Vice Chancellors: Witch-Hunt of the Weak and Vulnerable in the Name of Accountability The images of two retired Vice Chancellors of public sector universities being handcuffed and taken to National…
The Brett Kavanaugh Saga – Victory of One, Defeat of Many On the 6th of October, 2018, US President Donald Trump’s “great” judicial nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his supporters celebrated a victory,…
What Do Recent Reforms In Legal Education Mean For Foreign Law Graduates? During the Second World War, when the Germans were wreaking havoc over London with incessant attacks, Sir Winston Churchill, the…
How China and Pakistan Can Benefit From a Common Interests Initiative on Intellectual Property Given the broad scope of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), it is inevitable that the question of…
Flaws in the National Accountability Ordinance (Ordinance Number Xviii of 1999) – Scrutiny and Analysis Before we dive into the intricacies of the dreaded Ordinance, we must understand its historical inception. This…
Are Pakistani Households Abusing Domestic Workers? It is true that Pakistan has its fair share of deranged practices and the abuse of domestic workers is one of them. It is often the…
Association With Charitable And Not-For-Profit Objects Regulations 2018 The New Regulations The Association with Charitable and Not for Profit Objects Regulations 2018 were issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan…
Why Have We Written A Book On Family Laws In Pakistan? Dr Cheema and I have recently published a book titled Family Laws in Pakistan (Oxford University Press 2018). Before we started to…
Police Reforms Through The Law and Justice Commission Of Pakistan The talk about the justice sector’s reform in Pakistan is often apocryphal and the reason for it is clear: it does not…
A Lawyer’s Motivation “You seem too young; wouldn’t you need some senior to guide you through?” Despite spending quite some time in the profession of hardcore lawyering, this is what one young…
