Tue Dec 23, 2014
PANEL: The Postcolonial Lives of Colonial Law in South Asia – AALS Annual Meeting (Sat Jan 3 2015, 3:30pm, Washington DC)
Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
Annual Meeting
Tue Dec 23, 2014
Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
Annual Meeting
Sat Aug 9, 2014
Many thanks to Prof. Priya Gupta (Southwestern Law School) for preparing the first newsletter for the Section on Law and South Asian Studies of the Association of American Law Schools. The newsletter features a variety of updates, including details on the call for papers for the section’s program for the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting, updates on new scholarship of potential interest to section members, and other announcements.
Thu Jun 19, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS
“The Postcolonial Lives of Colonial Law in South Asiaâ€
Association of American Law Schools • Section on Law and South Asian Studies
Saturday, January 3, 2015 • Washington, DC
Tue Dec 24, 2013
(Published by Express Tribune (Pakistan), December 24, 2013)
Sun Dec 8, 2013
(Interview for The News on Sunday, conducted by Farah Zia)
Sat Nov 30, 2013
(Published by Herald (Pakistan), November 2013)
Mon Feb 11, 2013
Abstract:
Tue Feb 14, 2012
(Posted at Dorf on Law and Chapati Mystery)
Sun Sep 4, 2011
Abstract:
Thu Jan 6, 2011
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:
Tue Sep 21, 2010
Tue Jul 13, 2010
Sat Mar 20, 2010
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.
Sat Jul 4, 2009
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:
Thu May 7, 2009
From the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law School:
Sun Mar 15, 2009
Via Reuters (and Sadia Abbas), some breaking news from Pakistan:
Sat Mar 14, 2009
Everything old appears to be new again in Pakistan. The latest: government bans on independent television news coverage.
Thu Mar 12, 2009
(Posted at Dorf on Law)
Mon Sep 29, 2008
The South Asian subcontinent continued to feature prominently in the presidential race this week, as Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama clashed over U.S. policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan during their debate on Friday night. In the New York Times, David Sanger characterizes the exchange as a "role reversal," with Obama seeming "more aligned" than McCain "with President Bush’s current policy of authorizing American special forces to cross the Afghan-Pakistan border into Pakistan’s tribal areas that Al Qaeda and the Taliban have used as a sanctuary."
Sat Sep 27, 2008
(Posted at Dorf on Law)