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Commentary Lawyers and Great Expectations in Pakistan
Lawyers and Great Expectations in Pakistan
JURIST Staff
November 12, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Shubhankar Dam of the Singapore Management University School of Law says that in pressing Pakistan's Supreme Court in the direction of greater activism, Pakistan's lawyers embraced a problematic strategy that unintentionally helped to provoke General Pervez Musharraf's...

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Commentary Blackwater, Garrity, and Immunity:  What Does It All Mean?
Blackwater, Garrity, and Immunity: What Does It All Mean?
JURIST Staff
November 12, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Byron L. Warnken of the University of Baltimore School of Law says that the US State Department's reported grant of "immunity" to Blackwater security guards making sworn statements concerning the killings of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad...

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Commentary Pakistan: Mock Trials, Kangaroo Courts and Court Jesters
Pakistan: Mock Trials, Kangaroo Courts and Court Jesters
JURIST Staff
November 9, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the play of General Pervez Musharraf's newly-appointed Supreme Court overturning the rulings of the constitutional Supreme Court led...

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Commentary Soldiers and Citizens: Dictatorship and Democracy in Pakistan
Soldiers and Citizens: Dictatorship and Democracy in Pakistan
JURIST Staff
November 8, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Sadaf Aziz of the Lahore University of Management Sciences Faculty of Law, in Lahore, Pakistan, says that President Pervez Musharraf's continued leadership of Pakistan in an ostensibly civilian capacity while still Army Chief reflects an unresolved but...

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Commentary Solidarity With Pakistan's Lawyers: If Not Now, When?
Solidarity With Pakistan's Lawyers: If Not Now, When?
JURIST Staff
November 7, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says that lawyers around the world should show solidarity with the lawyers of Pakistan in their remarkable resistance to arbitrary power and lawlessness in the wake of General Pervez...

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Commentary Musharraf's Real 'War on Terror' in Pakistan
Musharraf's Real 'War on Terror' in Pakistan
JURIST Staff
November 6, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist Moeen Cheema, professor of Law & Policy at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the nature of the charges laid against hundreds of Lahore lawyers arrested after their recent mass protest against...

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Commentary Mukasey Nomination Requires Robust Scrutiny on Senate Floor
Mukasey Nomination Requires Robust Scrutiny on Senate Floor
JURIST Staff
November 6, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Guest Columnist William G. Ross of Cumberland School of Law, Samford University says despite US attorney general nominee Michael Mukasey's success in winning approval in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the full Senate should take all the time it needs...

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Commentary Pakistan in Emergency: Resisting the Enemy Within
Pakistan in Emergency: Resisting the Enemy Within
JURIST Staff
November 4, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Faisal Naseem Chaudhry, an advocate of the Lahore High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, says that the greatest danger to law and the constitution in Pakistan in the wake of General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule...

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Commentary Pakistan's Lawless Plight: Prescription for Another Coup?
Pakistan's Lawless Plight: Prescription for Another Coup?
JURIST Staff
November 4, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Contributing Editor Ali Khan of Washburn University School of Law says General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency in Pakistan has created a situation of lawlessness in the country that may actually prompt another military coup... On November 3, Pakistan...

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Commentary Pakistan's 'Proclamation of Emergency', the Judiciary and Other Stories
Pakistan's 'Proclamation of Emergency', the Judiciary and Other Stories
JURIST Staff
November 3, 2007 08:01:00 am

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Syed Umair Javed of the Department of Law & Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences, in Lahore, Pakistan, says that General Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule is an illegal, ultra-constitutional and desperate attempt to hold...

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