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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2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Postcolonia legality : fragments of the rule of law and constitutionalism
- Martial rule : military-bureaucratic authoritarianism and 'basic" constitutionalism
- Elective dictatorship : socialist populism and the myth of a consensus constitution
- Praetorian governmentality : Islamization of laws and the substantive constitutionalism
- indirect praetorianism : 'Public interest litigation' and the first wave of jurdicial activism
- Military-civil composite : 'military incorporated' and the 'lawyers' movement'
- Coporatist governance : the 'Chaudhry Court' and 'judicial proactivism'
- Conclusion : judicialization of politics in Pakistan.