Our canvass of law on October 29, 2019When we paint law on our layman canvass, we either shade it green–something that should be promoted and celebrated–or red–something that should be demoted and discredited. This green/red dichotomy means that our understanding of the law is bound up with our everyday experience of law between benefit and harm. For those who benefited from the […]
Rights-ethic v Care-ethic on October 14, 2019It gives me goose-bumps to imagine that science and reason have faced far few challenges in understanding kinetic energy and artificial intelligence than psychologists working out the true nature of men and women. Carol Gilligan -an American psychologist- after great toil informs us that men are guided by ethic of rights whilst women are guided […]
Our dignity on October 9, 2019“The dignity of a man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable. No person shall be subjected to torture for the purpose of extracting evidence.” This is Article 14 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973. It is the protective umbrella that guards our community against discriminatory practices, harm […]