Pakistan's Experience with Formal Law

An Alien Justice

AvOsama Siddique

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Law reform in Pakistan attracts such disparate champions as the Chief Justice of Pakistan, the USAID and the Taliban. Common to their equally obsessive pursuit of 'speedy justice' is a remarkable obliviousness to the historical, institutional and sociological factors that alienate Pakistanis from their formal legal system. This pioneering book highlights vital and widely neglected linkages between the 'narratives of colonial displacement' resonant in the literature on South Asia's encounter with colonial law and the region's postcolonial official law reform discourses. Against this backdrop, it presents a typology of Pakistani approaches to law reform and critically evaluates the IFI-funded single-minded pursuit of 'efficiency' during the last decade. Employing diverse methodologies, it proceeds to provide empirical support for a widening chasm between popular, at times violently expressed, aspirations for justice and democratically deficient reform designed in distant IFI headquarters that is entrusted to the exclusive and unaccountable Pakistani 'reform club'.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-20
Mått:156 x 233 x 30 mm
Vikt:820 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor:485
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107038158
Utmärkelser:Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, Karachi Literature Festival 2014

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Osama Siddique is Associate Professor at Lahore University of Management Sciences. He has previously worked as a transactional lawyer at two leading U.S. law firms and as an advocate in the Pakistani appellate courts. His research articles have been published in a number of international academic law journals.

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'A fascinating and troubling study of Pakistan's judicial system: its history misunderstood by its acolytes, its practice unaltered by countless reforms, its operations a tribulation for its constituents. Siddique analyzes the limits of scholarly reflection and well intentioned reform by placing them alongside the perceptions, strategies and experiences of those who use the system. A powerful and broad-ranging cautionary tale.' David Kennedy, Harvard Law School

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. The hegemony of heritage: the 'narratives of colonial displacement' and the absence of the past in Pakistani reform narratives; 2. Law in practice: the Lahore district courts litigants survey (2010–2011); 3. Law, crime, context and vulnerability: the Punjab crime perception survey (2009–2010); 4. Approaches to legal and judicial reform in Pakistan: postcolonial inertia and the paucity of imagination in times of turmoil and change; 5. Reform on paper: a post-mortem of justice sector reform in Pakistan from 1998–2010; 6. Reform nirvanas and reality checks: justice sector reform in Pakistan in the twenty-first century and the monopoly of the 'experts'; 7. Towards a new approach; Appendices.