The rise of generative AI has unlocked new frontiers in how machines read, write, and reason, but what happens when this intelligence is built on a […]
Internship at Ahmed and Pansota
17th June 2025 – 5th July 2025 In a city where courtrooms ring with the echoes of law and dusty files record decades’ worth of personal […]
Eighteen Is Not Western—It Is Constitutional, Islamic, and Just
The critics’ lament—“But that’s westernization!”—rings hollow. When Islamabad passed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill in May 2025, it did not just legislate; it made a statement. […]
Supreme Court on Forest Depletion and Article 9A: Mehar Badshah vs. GOVERNMENT OF KPK (PLD 2025 Supreme Court 36)
In the landmark judgement, Mehar Badshah vs. Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Supreme Court of Pakistan sets the precedent of environmental rights litigation under Article 9A […]
A Guide to Medical Malpractice Litigation in Sindh, Pakistan
The Sindh Healthcare Commission Act, 2013 (the SHCC Act) was enacted with the object and purpose of establishing the Sindh Healthcare Commission (the Commission), i.e., an […]
Protecting Corporate Identity: Arguing for the Separate Legal Entity Principle
A company has been established as a separate legal entity in the case of Salomon[1], and courts have further elaborated on the corporation being its own […]
From Rejection to Reality: The Return of Solar Panel Tax in Pakistan
As the world races toward renewable energy, Pakistan has taken a step back, taxing solar panels just when they became a lifeline for the middle class. […]
Court Martialing Civilians
Picture fair trial: an independent forum, an impartial judge, a detailed judgment, and a substantive right of appeal. Now, picture its absence: court-martials. Trials where guilt […]
Augmented Learning: Legal Education in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilot, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek has sparked a transformative debate in higher education, particularly […]
Zan, Zar, Zameen: She’s Not Yours to Own
The notion that women are comparable to property, akin to wealth and land, is a troubling and outdated belief encapsulated in the phrase “Zan, Zar, Zameen”. […]
From Phulmoni to Islamabad: A Century of Struggles Over Child Marriage Laws
In May 2025, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law a long-awaited amendment raising the minimum legal age of marriage to 18 for both girls […]
Punjab Awareness Bill: Populist Power Grab at the Expense of Fair Trial and Separation of Powers
Advertising may be the art of persuasion; however, the siphoning of public funds for persuading the taxpayers of the purported success of a government is truly […]
A Life in Law, Cut Short: Remembering Malik Israr Ahmed
On most mornings, Malik Israr Ahmed could be found pacing the narrow halls of the Attock District Courts, legal file in hand, blazer a touch weathered […]
Revisiting the Indus Waters Treaty: Does India have the legal right to walk away?
After the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, water sharing became a pivotal concern between the two newly formed nations—India and Pakistan. This was largely due […]
Press Release: De-escalation through Dialogue – The Role of Mediation in South Asian Peacebuilding and Beyond
Lahore, Pakistan — On 27th May, 2025, a panel of experts gathered at the Centre for Chinese Legal Studies at the Sheikh Ahmad Hassan School of […]
I DISSENT – THE JURISPRUDENTIAL DISAGREEMENTS IN TAX LAW
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar of the Supreme Court, both, have an established, longstanding judicial record to speak for their acumen and understanding of the law. Despite their respective chief justiceships having fallen victim to politics, strangled by the passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, their widespread contributions to the jurisprudence in Pakistan are hard to ignore.
BOOK REVIEW: ADRIAN VERMEULE’S ‘COMMON GOOD CONSTITUTIONALISM’
INTRODUCTION Vermeule’s highly original contribution to jurisprudence is a direct challenge to the two prevailing jurisprudential schools in the United States, and by extension, also, in […]