Nairabatical point of view

“Why U.S Constitutional Law?” these were the first words that were asked by my students on my first day of teaching. I was expecting this kind of question because being a backbencher (in my educational career) had taught me many things. So, I explained the importance of US constitution with respect to our constitutions. All the doctrines which we have or will have to take from the constitutional struggle of USA. Therefore, this question helped me to give a brief introduction of US constitution. We have been teaching Constitutional Law of US and Constitutional Law of UK for a long time in our law schools. UK constitution and US constitution are being taught collectively in three years annual degree course. While on the other hand, they are being divided into two courses in five year honors degree. Thus, a basic question arises what is the significance of studying these foreign laws? Britain, being a mother of all the modern democracies and an advocate of parliamentary system...

Constitution Day of Pakistan has been celebrated since 2015. Former chairman Senate, Raza Rabbani, took this initiative to mark 10 th of April as our Constitution Day by highlighting the importance of land mark date of 10 th April. It is dilemma of our constitutional history that after the span of 42 years, we decided to celebrate our constitution day but better late than never. The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan was passed by the Parliament on 10 th April and ratified on 14 th August, 1973. Americans usually observe Constitution Day on September 17 th , the day in 1787 that delegates to the Constitutional convention signed the document in Philadelphia. The law establishing public holiday regarding this day was passed in 2004 with the passage of an amendment by Senator Robert Byrd [1] to the Omnibus Spending Bill of 2004. While Indian Constitution Day, also known as Samvidhan Divas, is celebrated on 26 th November of every year to commemorate the adopt...