OUP launches publication on family law

Author: Press Release

Oxford University Press (OUP) launched its recent publication ‘Family Laws in Pakistan’ co-authored by Muhammad Zubair Abbasi and Shahbaz Ahmad Cheema. This book provides the latest and updated account of the principles and practices of family laws in Pakistan. It is primarily based on the latest case law and statutes. The authors not only present systemically organised case law but also critically evaluate leading judicial precedents. Various chapters of the book cover general principles of family law, demonstrate their application based on the facts of each case, trace patterns of developments in case law, rationalise conflicting judicial authorities, and propose law reform, wherever required. This is the first book that takes into account personal laws of non-Muslims in Pakistan and covers important issues related to conflict of personal laws.Dr Abbasi is assistant professor at Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He has published widely in the fields of Islamic family law and corporate law. His main area of interest lies in organisational law which intersects various institutions such as family, corporations, trusts, markets, and states. Trained as a lawyer and legal historian, Dr Abbasi has conducted path-breaking research on the formation of Muslim Personal Law in British India. He is the editor of the ‘LUMS Law Journal’ and the ‘Harvard Law School’ project ‘Sharia Source’. Dr Cheema is assistant professor at University Law College, University of the Punjab. In addition to authoring a book titled ‘Islamic Inheritance Law: Practices in Pakistan,’ Dr Cheema has published numerous research articles on Islamic law and law of evidence. The event held at the Oxford bookshop featured a stimulating panel discussion between Hamid Khan, senior advocate at the Supreme Court of Pakistan; Mushtaq Ahmad, chairman, Department of Law, International Islamic University; and the authors. Sami Uzair Khan, associate professor of Family Law, Law College, University of the Punjab, was the moderator. The speakers highlighted that this seminal book will provide students and the legal community with a comprehensive treatise on the various aspects of Family Laws in Pakistan, and will prove to be a valuable addition to scholarly works on the subject.

‘Family Laws in Pakistan’ provides the latest and updated account of the principles and practices of family laws in Pakistan

Earlier, Fayyaz Hussain Raja, sales director, OUP Pakistan, introduced the authors, the speakers, and the moderator. He set the authors set about the task of writing this book when they discovered a lack of discourse regarding conflicting judicial authorities, especially those pertaining to the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961.

Published in Daily Times, November 18th 2018.

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