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Hassan A. Niazi
@Hassan_A_Niazi
Lawyer. @nyulaw Hauser Global Scholar 2015-2016. Formerly Op-Ed columnist for Express Tribune and faculty at LUMS.
Jun 4, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
The spectacle of colonial punishment.

Many people know about the massacre in Jallianwala Bagh, but the collective punishment imposed on the people of Amritsar in its aftermath was equally reprehensible.

A thread on the infamous crawling order. Image During protests that were taking place against the Rowlatt Act, there were instances where Europeans were attacked by the protestors.

The violence was triggered by the British crackdown on the largely peaceful protests. One of the individuals attacked was Marcella Sherwood.
Jun 4, 2022 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
As another cohort of former law students graduates, I've gotten a lot of requests for advice on navigating the first year or so of legal practice.

Compiling a thread here of some advice for young lawyers in Pakistan based on my own personal experience and growth. 1. The best thing you can learn to do in your first year of practice is building the skill of reading judgments.

Our law schools don't teach this well. So work on this yourself.

Go beyond headnotes and summaries to truly understanding why a case was decided the way it was.
May 17, 2022 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Will probably do a deeper dive into this, but on the basis of the short order provided the Supreme Court has made a mess of things and has, as the dissent points out, rewritten the Constitution and gone so far as to possibly make votes of no confidence redundant. The SC comes to its conclusion by reading Article 63A (defection) with Article 17 (freedom of association). It reasons that the defection clause serves to protect the rights of political parties.
May 4, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Every law student should have a basic understanding of Joseph Raz's contribution to legal theory.

On his death, here's a very simplified version of what his views were on exclusive legal positivism for the young law student.

For everyone else, I apologise.

🧵 At its core, legal positivism is a theory that says law's validity - or what ultimately determines if something can be called 'law' - is based on 'social facts' as opposed to things like morality etc.
May 18, 2020 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Thread on the Supreme Court's judgment on reopening shopping malls during a global pandemic.

First of all, this is a policy decision for the executive to make after consulting health experts. The Supreme Court is neither the executive nor staffed with health experts. Supreme Court has no business telling the government how to handle a health crisis, especially given the Supreme Court is an unelected body of judges who will never be impacted by Covid-19 the same way as an ordinary citizen of Pakistan.