Courting The Law

The Law Of The Future “The future is already here – it is just not very evenly distributed.” ~ William Ford Gibson In January 2017, two […]

Federal Legislation In 2016 In the year 2016, the National Assembly passed 51 Acts but the Majlis-e-Shura (Parliament) altogether passed just seven, out of which two were […]

Price Of A Life: Compensation To The Civilian Victims Of Terrorism An overlooked or rather ignored aspect which needs attention is the amount of compensation awarded […]

Two Job Openings At Research Society of International Law (RSIL) Islamabad  1) Communications Associate The Research Society of International Law, Pakistan (RSIL) invites applications for the position of […]

Seminar On Child Labour At Pakistan Center of Legal Research And Publication Pakistan College of Law recently conducted a seminar on Child Labour in Pakistan which […]

Criminal Justice System In Pakistan: A Critical Analysis Executive Summary The Criminal Justice System in Pakistan comprises of five components i.e. the police, judiciary, prisons, prosecution, […]

Nazi America, An Orwellian Nightmare Of The Doublethink In Real World Not too long ago, the world was left aghast by the sight of the lifeless […]

President, Parliament And Separation Of Powers “It is the will of the people which turns an ordinance from ‘having effect and force of law’ to ‘law […]

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied The problem of delayed justice is nothing new and has been growing since the independence of Pakistan. Many attempts have been […]

The Fairer Sex In The Legal Profession: Tracing Women’s Place In A Man’s World – A critical account of lessons learnt from the Women in Law Dialogue […]

To Bail Or Not To Bail? It is a universally recognized principle that wherever there is inequality, there cannot be justice. Equality and justice are two […]

The Right To Protest: No More? Within the first month of the new year, Punjab government sent out a clear message to those who had hoped […]

Women’s Action Forum Karachi’s Letter To The Honourable Chief Justice Of Pakistan Through The Human Rights Cell Of The Supreme Court, On The Recovery Of Missing […]

Human Trafficking And The Lesser Known Evil Amongst many abduction cases where victims have undergone a long period of captivity before being recovered, there was one […]

Failed Promise Although former US President Obama’s administration has achieved milestones correcting the previous regime’s botches, surely, closure of Guantanamo Bay has been neglected. Despite his […]

Associate Counsel Position In UAE An Abu Dhabi based law firm requires a lawyer with 4-5 years of corporate/ commercial/ real-estate experience in an in-house position with […]

Publication Launch on International Humanitarian Law and Preventive Detention A publication launch was recently held on International Humanitarian Law and Preventive Detention by the Conflict Law […]