Tue Nov 5, 2013
The Appearance of Impropriety and Partiality (Dorf on Law)
(Posted at Dorf on Law)
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Mon Feb 11, 2013
ARTICLE: “Gray Zone” Constitutionalism and the Dilemma of Judicial Independence in Pakistan, 46 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1 (2013)
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Fri Dec 14, 2012
“Truly Civil” Torture (ImmigrationProf Blog)
(Posted at Dorf on Law)
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Wed Dec 5, 2012
Access to Counsel and the Political Geography of Immigration Detention (ImmigrationProf Blog)
Thu Nov 29, 2012
Lessons from Criminal Justice Reform for Immigration Detention (ImmigrationProf Blog)
(Posted at Dorf on Law)
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Wed Jul 25, 2012
Rahmmigration, Romneygration, and Federalism (Dorf on Law)
(Posted at Dorf on Law)
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Tue Feb 14, 2012
Love in the Time of Contempt (Chapati Mystery)
(Posted at Dorf on Law and Chapati Mystery)
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Sun Sep 4, 2011
ARTICLE: Land Rights Issues in International Human Rights Law, 4 Malaysian J. Hum. Rts. 16 (2010) (with Elisabeth Wickeri)
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Thu Jan 6, 2011
SAJAforum: OBIT: K.G. Kannabiran, India’s “Leading Civil Liberties Lawyer for the Last Four Decades”
K.G. Kannabiran, one of India’s “leading civil liberties lawyers for the last four decades,†died on December 30, 2010, at age 81. A biographical sketch, from the Hindu:
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Mon Oct 18, 2010
Detention Reform and Its Discontents (Dorf on Law)
(Posted at Dorf on Law)
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Tue Sep 21, 2010
PAKISTAN FLOODS: TIME Removes Pakistan Floods Story from Cover of US Edition (SAJAforum)
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Wed Jul 21, 2010
ARTICLE: Rethinking Immigration Detention, 110 Colum. L. Rev. Sidebar 42 (2010)
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Tue Jul 13, 2010
SYMPOSIUM VOLUME: Perspectives on Fundamental Rights in South Asia, Drexel Law Review, Vol. 2 No. 2 (Spring 2010)
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Sat Mar 20, 2010
SAJAforum: PAKISTAN: An Update on Internally Displaced Persons
Back in July 2009, we took note of what experts then were calling an “impending humanitarian disaster“: the displacement of as many as 2.5 million individuals due to the government’s military offensive in the North-West Frontier Province. Soon thereafter, the Pakistan government announced plans to return displaced individuals to their homes, and mainstream news coverage of the crisis subsided and public attention turned elsewhere.
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Fri Mar 12, 2010
SAJAforum: UK: BBC Asian Network on the Chopping Block?
When the BBC Asian Network was launched back in 2002 as a nationwide digital radio station throughout Britain, the BBC’s then-radio director, Jenny Abramsky, called it “one of the most important things the BBC has ever done.” Since then, the Asian Network has developed a loyal following, both in Britain and, via the internet, around the world.
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Sat Jul 4, 2009
SAJAforum: PAKISTAN: An “Impending Humanitarian Disasterâ€
That’s what Audil Rashid and Mian Nazish Adnan sound the alarm about in the July 4, 2009 issue of the British medical journal The Lancet, following their recent visits to camps set up to house internally displaced persons (IDPs) fleeing the conflict zone in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. While Americans celebrate the Independence Day weekend with barbeques and fireworks, Rashid and Adnan paint a grim picture of the crisis in Pakistan:
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Fri Apr 3, 2009
SAJAforum: “Did you have something to do with that?”
Times Now correspondent Simrat Ghuman was “walking on air” after President Obama called on her to ask a question during his news conference at the G-20 summit in London. (Is it just me, or does that number seem to change every year, and entirely without warning?) Apparently, Ghuman was so high in the clouds that she couldn’t help but interrupt Obama’s answer:
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Fri Mar 20, 2009
SAJAforum: UN Official Alleges War Crimes in Sri Lanka’s Escalating Civil War
The civil war in Sri Lanka has attracted greater international scrutiny within the past week, with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay suggesting that both the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) may have committed war crimes:
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Tue Mar 17, 2009
SAJAforum: BBC Journalists to Strike Over Proposed “Offshoring” of South Asia Services
Journalists from across all services of the BBC have resolved to hold two one-day strikes next month, prompted in large part by plans to “offshore” operations for the BBC World Service’s Hindi, Nepali, and Urdu language programming to Delhi, Kathmandu, and Islamabad. From the Guardian:
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Sun Mar 15, 2009
SAJAforum: BREAKING NEWS – Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Reportedly to Be Restored as Chief Justice of Pakistan
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Via Reuters (and Sadia Abbas), some breaking news from Pakistan:
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