Pakistan's successive constitutions, which enumerate guaranteed fundamental rights and provid... more Pakistan's successive constitutions, which enumerate guaranteed fundamental rights and provide for the separation of state power and judicial review, contemplate judicial protection of vulnerable sections of society against unlawful executive and legislative actions. This Article focuses upon the remarkably divergent pronouncements of Pakistan's judiciary regarding the religious status and freedom of religion of one particular religious minority, the Ahmadis. The
Explores how to apply TWAIL teaching methods to economic international law subjects. Participants... more Explores how to apply TWAIL teaching methods to economic international law subjects. Participants examine how TWAIL’s anti-subordination focus is relevant to recent global economic challenges. Presenters focus on specific legal regimes, such as climate change, international trade, and neo-liberal policies. They explain how international law creates new divisions and that these distinctions are continually re-formulated. Examples include the increasing foreign
Co-authored with Ratna Kapur, this commentary engages the interrelationship of hegemony and coerc... more Co-authored with Ratna Kapur, this commentary engages the interrelationship of hegemony and coercion in legal regimes of the modern state. Against the backdrop of regulation of sexuality in fascist Spain, we posit a model of modern state power that draws upon the work of Gramsci, Althusser, and Foucault. It is argued that ideology is the velvet glove that encases the iron fist of coercion, and law always combines coercion and ideology by its very structure and operation. A bridge between critical race theory and queer theory is located in the concept of racing seen as the modern technology of power whereby domination is exercised and legitimated on grounds of professed biological, natural, and immutable deficiencies of the subordinated. Practices of subaltern resistance are identified to search locations and scope of spaces where agency of the subordinated can unfold.
Pakistan's successive constitutions, which enumerate guaranteed fundamental rights and provid... more Pakistan's successive constitutions, which enumerate guaranteed fundamental rights and provide for the separation of state power and judicial review, contemplate judicial protection of vulnerable sections of society against unlawful executive and legislative actions. This Article focuses upon the remarkably divergent pronouncements of Pakistan's judiciary regarding the religious status and freedom of religion of one particular religious minority, the Ahmadis. The
Explores how to apply TWAIL teaching methods to economic international law subjects. Participants... more Explores how to apply TWAIL teaching methods to economic international law subjects. Participants examine how TWAIL’s anti-subordination focus is relevant to recent global economic challenges. Presenters focus on specific legal regimes, such as climate change, international trade, and neo-liberal policies. They explain how international law creates new divisions and that these distinctions are continually re-formulated. Examples include the increasing foreign
Co-authored with Ratna Kapur, this commentary engages the interrelationship of hegemony and coerc... more Co-authored with Ratna Kapur, this commentary engages the interrelationship of hegemony and coercion in legal regimes of the modern state. Against the backdrop of regulation of sexuality in fascist Spain, we posit a model of modern state power that draws upon the work of Gramsci, Althusser, and Foucault. It is argued that ideology is the velvet glove that encases the iron fist of coercion, and law always combines coercion and ideology by its very structure and operation. A bridge between critical race theory and queer theory is located in the concept of racing seen as the modern technology of power whereby domination is exercised and legitimated on grounds of professed biological, natural, and immutable deficiencies of the subordinated. Practices of subaltern resistance are identified to search locations and scope of spaces where agency of the subordinated can unfold.
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