Courting constitutionalism : the politics of public law and judicial review in Pakistan /
Over the last decade, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a powerful and overtly political institution. While the strong form of judicial review adopted by the Supreme Court has fostered the perception of a sudden and ahistorical judicialisation of politics, the judiciary's prominent r...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in constitutional law.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108913065 |
Table of Contents:
- Postcolonia legality : fragments of the rule of law and constitutionalism
- Martial rule : military-bureaucratic authoritarianism and 'basic" constitutionalism
- Elective dictatorship : socialist populism and the myth of a consensus constitution
- Praetorian governmentality : Islamization of laws and the substantive constitutionalism
- indirect praetorianism : 'Public interest litigation' and the first wave of jurdicial activism
- Military-civil composite : 'military incorporated' and the 'lawyers' movement'
- Coporatist governance : the 'Chaudhry Court' and 'judicial proactivism'
- Conclusion : judicialization of politics in Pakistan.