Law has been assuming an increasingly protean character as we move into the 21st century. Though for the greater part of the last century global elites have been seeking to educate the masses, on whom political rights have been increasingly vested, that there is a hierarchy of law that must be unde ...

China Pledges to Reduce Death Sentences ~ The New York Times Pro Bono Hours Rise at Major U.S. Law Firms ~ Law.com  British law students arrested in Brazil over luggage 'fraud' ~ www.telegraph.co.uk Musharraf Lawyer Absent as Pakistan Court Probes Rule ~ Bloomberg

Bush sent $10 billion to then-President Pervez Musharraf, who pledged that he would use the aid to go after the terrorists ...

For more than 400 years, the people of the nations of Western Europe, and their far-scattered children, have cleaved to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as the archetypal expression of "star-cross'd lovers" cruelly dealt by the triple doofi of family, culture, and fate. This month in Pakistan culminat ...

I'm delighted that, finally, the Pakistani government has given way to pressure from lawyers and Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party, and decided to reinstate the Chief Justice Iktikhar Chaudhry and the remaining handful of judges deposed by General Musharraf when he suspended the constitution in 2007. The g ...

Chaudhry was dismissed in late 2007 by then-president and army chief Pervez Musharraf, but Zardari regarded the judge as too politicized and feared he could pose a threat to his own presidency if restored ...

Faced with a losing battle against strengthening Taliban elements in its Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA), the Pakistani government officially threw in the towel last week on its already halfhearted efforts to combat terrorism in the key Malakand D ...

Syed Saleem Shahzad at Asia Times reports that the United States has lost a crucial Pakistani ally in its anti-terror fight. Under pressure from the Pakistani military, President Asif Ali Zardari has fired retired Major General Mahmood Durrani, the National Security Advisor. The move could mean trou ...

In late 2007 The National Law Journal chose deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as its Lawyer of the Year for standing up for the preservation of the rule of law under the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf ...

In late 2007 The National Law Journal chose deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry as it's Lawyer of the Year for standing up for the preservation of the rule of law under the Presidency of Pervez Musharraf ...