The following statement was released Wednesday, November 7, 2007, by Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law Peter Schuck, Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law Jeff Redding, and other members of the Yale Law School community. If you would like to add your name to the list, please email your name and title to [EMAIL=“[email protected]”][email protected]**.*
“We, the undersigned friends and members of the Yale Law School community—faculty, students, alumni, administration, and staff—denounce in the strongest terms General Pervez Musharraf’s recent assault on the rule of law in Pakistan. By suspending the Constitution; dissolving the Supreme Court and the provincial High Courts and replacing them with judges of his own choosing; engaging in arbitrary and unprovoked arrests of thousands of opposition leaders, journalists, and other law-abiding citizens; and violently suppressing protests by hundreds of lawyers (including graduates of our school) who were acting in the highest tradition of our profession, General Musharraf is trampling upon the very system of law that alone can justify a ruler’s power over his people. We stand in solidarity with our fellow lawyers and the democratic values that they represent, and we urge an early restoration of legality and legitimate authority in Pakistan.”
Re: Yale Law School Community Releases Statement on Pakistan
LOL i know where you are going Rebel X. But no Quaid Azam Law School cant release any statement agaisnt patriot act.
This was the first such statement Ive seen coming from western community condemning the emergency rule (dems in US dont count, cos they have their own political agenda. I dont see Yale Law having any such agenda tho)
Re: Yale Law School Community Releases Statement on Pakistan
there has been condemnation from UN and from human rights groups as well. I think for Yale it was a publicity ploy, kinda like the columbia uni publicity stunt of having iranian president and treat him like he was standing on the witness stand :D
I mean I dont have an issue with the statement, just that Yale may want to issue some statements about some errrr local issues shall we say.
PS: challo not quaid e azam uni, but maybe we can get a statement from superstar evening tuition center on mall road in shekhupoora.
Re: Yale Law School Community Releases Statement on Pakistan
law schools release statements? and what does that do?
nothng much really
but in the absence of any statements critical of Martial Law in Pak, coming from state dept and white house and 10 downing street, it amounts to something
