War of words with publisher

There was a war of words between Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and a senior journalist at a media function last night.  Chaudhry claimed there was no truth in a story written by Robert Keith-Reid of Island Business. When Keith-Reid yelled out from the audience that the story had come from a reliable sources, Chaudhry told him he (Keith-Reid) was suffering memory lapse.&nbsp

Social Media’s impact on Intellectual Property Rights

This is a draft chapter. The final version is available in Handbook of Research on Counterfeiting and Illicit Trade, edited by Peggy E. Chaudhry, published in 2017 by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366451. This material is for private use only, and cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher.Peer reviewe

Pakistan in 2009: Tackling the Taliban?

Party-based political competition played an important part in shaping key events in Pakistan in 2009. This article examines the impact of party-based competition on the much-delayed restoration of Supreme Court Chief Justice Mohammad Iftikhar Chaudhry, efforts to address (with U.S. assistance) Pakistan’s growing Taliban-affiliated insurgency, and both federal and provincial economic policies. This article concludes that party-based competition will continue to shape Pakistan’s evolving security and economic situation in 2010

Book Review: Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition

Review of Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition by Ayesha S. Chaudhry. Oxford University Press, 2013

USA v. Sohail Chaudhry

USDC for the District of New Jerse

Legislation 1718.10 Senator Accountability

Biweekly reports by CLA class and Holt school senators will be required for fulfillment of role and accountability Sponsor: Nagina Chaudhry Status: Table

In Re: Sohail Chaudhry

USDC for the District of New Jerse

The Chaudhry Court : Deconstructing the Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan

The Supreme Court of Pakistan underwent a remarkable transformation in its institutional role and constitutional position during the tenure of the former Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (2005–2013). This era in Pakistan’s judicial history was also marked by great controversy as the court faced charges that it had engaged in “judicial activism,” acted politically, and violated the constitutionally mandated separation of powers between institutions of the state. This article presents an in-depth analysis of the judicial review actions of the Chaudhry Court and argues that the charge of judicial activism is theoretically unsound and analytically obfuscating. The notion of judicial activism is premised on the existence of artificial distinctions between law, politics and policy and fails to provide a framework for adequately analyzing or evaluating the kind of judicial politics Pakistan has recently experienced. The Supreme Court’s role, like that of any apex court with constitutional and administrative law jurisdiction, has always been deeply and structurally political and will continue to be so in the future. As such, this article focuses on the nature and consequences of the Chaudhry Court’s judicial politics rather than addressing the issue of whether it indulged in politics at all. It analyzes the underlying causes that enabled the court to exercise an expanded judicial function and in doing so engages with the literature on the “judicialization of politics” around the world