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Law, State and Inequality in Pakistan : Explaining the Rise of the Judiciary

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Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics. Instead of seeing the judiciary as helpless or struggling against an authoritarian state, it argues that the judiciary has been a crucial link in the creation of state and political inequality in Pakistan. This rubs against the central role given to the judiciary in developing countries to fix the ?corrupt politicians and stubborn bureaucracies? in the World Bank?s ?Good Governance? paradigm and rule of law initiatives. It also challenges the contemporary legal and judicial discourse that extols the virtues of Public Interest Litigation. While the book?s core analysis is a critique of the contemporary liberal legal project, it also adds to the critical tradition of social theory by linking political economy to a social theory of law. The theoretical aspect of the study is applicable to any developing society whose judiciary is going through foreign-sponsored ?rule of law? judicial reforms.


Author: Muhammad Azeem
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: Aug 15, 2018
Number of Pages: 278 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 9811099820
ISBN-13: 9789811099823

Law, State and Inequality in Pakistan : Explaining the Rise of the Judiciary

$117.02
 
Through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years, this book offers a new assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics. Instead of seeing the judiciary as helpless or struggling against an authoritarian state, it argues that the judiciary has been a crucial link in the creation of state and political inequality in Pakistan. This rubs against the central role given to the judiciary in developing countries to fix the ?corrupt politicians and stubborn bureaucracies? in the World Bank?s ?Good Governance? paradigm and rule of law initiatives. It also challenges the contemporary legal and judicial discourse that extols the virtues of Public Interest Litigation. While the book?s core analysis is a critique of the contemporary liberal legal project, it also adds to the critical tradition of social theory by linking political economy to a social theory of law. The theoretical aspect of the study is applicable to any developing society whose judiciary is going through foreign-sponsored ?rule of law? judicial reforms.


Author: Muhammad Azeem
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: Aug 15, 2018
Number of Pages: 278 pages
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
ISBN-10: 9811099820
ISBN-13: 9789811099823
 

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