JUDGES’ LIBRARY MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Vol: 2 Issue: 1 January, 2014 LIST OF BOOKS FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, A JUDGE SPEAKS OUT 2014 AJMAL MIAN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, THE GOLDEN WARRIOR 2004 (THREE COPIES) LAWRENCE JAMES Oxford University Press, New Delhi, ABACUS, 2005` (ONE COPY) 2004. Hardbound. Book Condition: As During the 1920s—in the aftermath of New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The the Arab revolt against Britain—T. E. early years. 2. England. 3. The legal Lawrence gained global attention, both profession. 4. The High Court of Sindh. for his involvement in the Middle Eastern 5. Acting chief justice high court of anti-imperialist movement, and for his Balochistan. 6. Transfer back to the vivid and sensational writings about his high court of Sindh. 7. The chief justice experiences. Following World War I, his high court of Sindh. 8. Elevation to the appointment as an advisor to Winston Supreme Court of Pakistan. 9. Being Churchill—nearly simultaneous with the superseded. 10. The Judges case. 11. release of an American documentary President's reference no. 2. 12. Judicial about the revolt—further charged the T. crises. 13. The chief justice of Pakistan. E. Lawrence mania. Despite the 14. Final thoughts. Appendices. Notes. emergence of a whole new set of Glossary. Index. A Judge Speaks Out problems in the Middle East, and fueled provides some interesting anecdotes by the classic status of the epic movie and poignant moments from his life Lawrence of Arabia, the T. E. Lawrence his youth his migration at partition mystique continues to fascinate. from Delhi to Karachi in 1947 and the Controversial and provocative, this acclimatization of his family there to revised and updated edition of Lawrence his subsequent entry into the legal James’s acclaimed biography penetrates profession in 1957. and overturns the mythology that LAW COURTS IN A GLASS surrounds T. E. Lawrence. HOUSE: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY UNDER THE WIGS THE MEMOIRS SAYYID SAJJAD ALI SHAH OF A LEGAL KING-MAKER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, SYDNEY AYLEFT 2001 (ONE COPY) EYRE METHUEN, 1978 (ONE Supreme Court Justice Sajjad Ali Shah COPY) was about to reach a major Sydney Aylett entered the Temple as a constitutional decision when junior barristers' clerk at seven shillings Legislators of the ruling Muslim a week. He served his mistress, the Law, League Party stormed the Supreme faithfully for the next 58yrs, from 1928 Court in Pakistan, physically as chief clerk to No. 4 Paper Buildings. preventing him from delivering This is his frank and often amusing judgment. Here, Shah provides the memoir of this life. As a clerk he came judiciary's version of this bizarre into daily contact with the famous and episode, shedding new light on infamous. His job made him a virtual Pakistani history, law, and politics.an kingmaker; his was a major decision in advocate, district and sessions judge the choice of barristers to join his registrar supreme court of Pakistan, chambers, he directed their careers by judge Sindh high court, chief justice attracting and selecting briefs and Sindh high court. negotiated the fees. The author provides affectionate portraits, warts and all, of distinguished barristers represented. A PUBLICATION OF THE LAHORE HIGH COURT JUDGES’ LIBRARY, 2014 DISSENTING JUDGMENTS IN THE DEMOCRACY WITHOUT LAW DEMOCRATS NEAL GEACH GHASSAN SALAME WILDY, SIMMONDS AND HILL I B TAURIS & CO LTD, 1994 PUBLISHING, 2012 (ONE COPY) (ONE COPY) In Dissenting Judgments in the Law a Ideas of democracy and political team of expert contributors reassess liberalization have recently become nineteen landmark cases from different central to political debate within areas of the law, each of which had the and about the Middle East. The potential for the law to have developed current focus on the merits of in a markedly different direction. The democratic practice in many areas cases have been selected on account of of the world, coupled with the spread their continued relevance to the law of economic liberalism, will today or the controversial nature of the inevitably, according to some majority’s decision. A key feature of accounts, bring about a measure of each case was a dissenting opinion from political pluralism. Against this, the a judge who thought that the law persistence of authoritarian regimes should develop in a different direction. in the Middle East, together with the COMPARATIVE fragility of experiments with CONSTITUTIONAL LAW democracy, has revived an old VICKI C.JACKSON argument among some Western FOUNDATION PRESS, 2006 (ONE academics and among many COPY) proponents of cultural nationalism within the Middle East, The second edition of Comparative Constitutional Law updates the first ENVIRONMENT LAW edition by including material on SUMEET MALIK important recent developments. The EASTERN BOOK COMPANY, second edition expands the treatment 2008 (ONE COPY) "dialogic" forms of judicial review, This book is not restricted to the presenting material on the British regular collection of statutes found Human Rights Act, and recent scholarly in most run-of-the-mill compilations, analyses of these forms of review. It and is a first ever compilation of incorporates a substantial discussion of such a wide array of legislations the treatment of emergencies in the concerning the environment and world's constitutional systems, focusing laws relating to it. Not only the Acts on the extent to which constitutions that directly address environmental regulate government operations in issues, but also every aspect of the emergencies by requiring executives to Central and State Acts, Rules, Policy obtain authorization from legislatures Documents, International Treaties or, in contrast, do so through direct and Conventions. judicial supervision of executive action. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON LAW AND NATURE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW DAVID DELANEY MARK TUSHNET CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2003 (ONE COPY) An ideal supplement for professors This interdisciplinary study explores the who wish to incorporate relationship between conceptions of comparative law into their nature and (largely American) legal constitutional law courses, Global thought and practice. It focuses on the Perspectives on Constitutional Law politics and pragmatics of nature talk introduces students to the various as expressed in both extra-legal ways that nations other than the disputes and their transformation and United States resolve contemporary translation into forms of legal discourse constitutional questions. Covering (tort, property, contract, administrative both structural issues and individual law, criminal law and constitutional rights, the book offers a wide but law). Delaney begins by considering the select range of readings on pragmatics of nature in connection. interesting constitutional issues in sixteen accessible chapters. A PUBLICATIONE -OFmail: THE [email protected] LAHORE HIGH COURT JUDGES’ LIBRARY, 2014 .