Husain The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan

A Comparative Study of Judicial Restraint and its Development in India, the US and Pakistan
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-19009-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

Since 2004, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in the tri-partite constitutional system in Pakistan. In some instances, the Court has engaged in hyper-active use of judicial review over the laws passed by Parliament or the policies of the Prime Minister.

This book analyses the Pakistani judiciary through the important lens of comparative politics. It uses the counter-examples of India and the United States in order to present a justiciability standard and procedure for the Supreme Court of Pakistan to adopt. Beginning by tracing the varying development of judicial review in each country based on the impact of colonial judicial systems, the author moves onto comparing the roles of the courts in each country as envisioned by their respective Constitutional Founders. Next, the structural differences in the constitutions of each country are compared, which leads to an examination of justiciability doctrines developed by the Supreme Courts of the United States, India, and Pakistan. The, book concludes with a proposal to introduce a justiciability standard and the creation of a Justiciability Council as a companion organization to the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

A comparative study of judicial restraint and its development around colonial legacies, the book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Law, South Asian Politics and Law and Comparative Law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Husain, Waris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. Colonial justice

3. The origins of judicial review in Pakistan, India and the United States

4. Structural and constitutional differences

5. Current justiciability standards and procedures

6. Executive disqualification and judicial review

7. Judicial review and control over judicial appointments

8. A proposed solution: Justiciability council and four-element justiciability test

Über Autor(innen)

Waris Husain, is Adjunct Professor at Howard University School of Law, US.