Courting constitutionalism : the politics of public law and judicial review in Pakistan / Moeen Cheema, Australian National University.
"Pakistan's legal and judicial histories are often written through the lens of constitutional law and read like speculative lines connecting the dots between notable cases and major crises. While these constitutional cases and crises are important, an exclusive focus on this domain of judi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in constitutional law.
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| Summary: | "Pakistan's legal and judicial histories are often written through the lens of constitutional law and read like speculative lines connecting the dots between notable cases and major crises. While these constitutional cases and crises are important, an exclusive focus on this domain of judicial action obscures the more significant and consistent developments that have taken place in the sphere of 'administrative' law. It is through the development of the judicial review of administrative action, even under military rule, that Pakistan's superior courts progressively carved an expansive institutional role for themselves"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 259 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108913065 1108913067 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108913065 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2021) |