Research Publications
SAHSOL proudly presents the research contributions of our notable faculty members.
Author: Dr Faiza Ismail
Publisher: Routledge, 2022
Professor Ismail’s book is the first to offer an in-depth description of international financial centres and the growth of Islamic Finance in the Eurozone. This discussion should appeal to those studying international finance in the disciplines of economics, business, law and religion.
Edited by: Prof. Satvinder Juss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022
This groundbreaking volume provides a critical perspective on the legal ordering of human rights issues at a time when the legitimacy and politics of national regulatory governance over the lives of people is in question as never before.
SAHSOL Contributors:
- Uzair J. Kayani (HOD, Assistant Professor)
- Dr Adnan Sattar (Assistant Professor)
- Marva Khan (SAHSOL Alumna 2013, Assistant Professor)
- Reema Omer (SAHSOL Alumna 2009)
- Neha Ali Gauhar (Former Teaching Fellow, SAHSOL)
Author: Dr Adnan Sattar
Publisher: Routledge, 2020
In this important volume, Professor Sattar examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifications for criminal punishment. Using interdisciplinary discourse analysis, it exposes certain paradoxes that underpin the ‘International Bill of Human Rights’, academic commentaries on human rights law, and the global human rights monitoring regime in relation to the aims of punishment in domestic penal systems.
Author: Dr. Sadaf Aziz
Publisher: Bloombury, 2019
This volume provides a contextual and historical account of constitutional laws evolving public law doctrine in Pakistan. By decentering a view of constitutionalism away from its emergency jurisprudence, a more encompassing view of developments is provided.
Author: Dr Syed Muhammad Azeem
Publisher: Springer, 2017
In this book Dr Azeem offered an assessment of the role of the judiciary in Pakistani politics through a detailed historical and empirical account of post-independence years. Instead of viewing the judiciary as helpless or struggling against an authoritarian state, it argued that the judiciary has been a crucial link in the creation political inequality in Pakistan.
Author: Prof. Sikander A. Shah
Publisher: Routledge, 2016
This volume studied the legal and political issues surrounding the use of drones as armed strikes were being carried out in Pakistan. It critically examined questions of consent between states and the governance of international legal norms. The issues it explored continued to be of relevance even though the geographical sites of drone warfare may have shifted.