Democratic eclipse on June 12, 2019Democratic spaces in Pakistan are shrinking. In his inaugural speech in the National Assembly, Prime Minister Imran Khan promised to promote openness and transparency. But, in place of transparency and openness, we are witnessing increased censorship, selective accountability, and outright suppression to cover an emerging governance deficit in the country. The proposition that nearly all […]
Back to square one? on August 2, 2017Oliver Wendell Holmes, a remarkable legal scholar and US Supreme Court justice, expounded in his treatise The Common Law (1881) the theory of legal development as a story in the process of being written by judges based on practical realities and not a set of rules. Law is not, he stated, a ‘book of mathematics’. […]