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Law in flux

If the rules are malleable, we enter a state of vulnerability.

29.06.2025 60

Dawn

Adeel Wahid

BOOK REVIEW: ADRIAN VERMEULE’S ‘COMMON GOOD CONSTITUTIONALISM’

INTRODUCTION Vermeule’s highly original contribution to jurisprudence is a direct challenge to the two prevailing jurisprudential schools in the...

23.06.2025 20

Courting The Law

Adeel Wahid

I DISSENT – THE JURISPRUDENTIAL DISAGREEMENTS IN TAX LAW

Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar of the Supreme Court, both, have an established, longstanding judicial record to speak for their...

23.06.2025 10

Courting The Law

Adeel Wahid

Ex-parte

Parties to the dispute are heard at entirely different times.

19.04.2025 60

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Adeel Wahid

It’s the context

Being on the executive’s leash takes away judicial fairness.

21.03.2025 50

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Adeel Wahid

The façade

No one felt the need to run the proposed amendments by the people. After all, what do the people know?

21.02.2025 60

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Adeel Wahid

Fractured concepts

How can we find governance based on the idea of respect?

27.01.2025 60

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Adeel Wahid

Loaded dice

HEADS I win, tails you lose. The amendments made to the Election Act, 2017, on the fly, to paper over the various discrepancies in the elections...

04.10.2024 10

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Adeel Wahid

The generalists

“[A] CALCUTTA clerk in the mid-nineteenth-century Public Works Department of the colonial government would need little formal retraining for...

09.09.2024 10

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Adeel Wahid