Dr Filippo Fontanelli read Law at the University of Pisa (Law Degree and Advanced Law Degree, in 2004 and 2006) and at the Sant Anna School (Diploma di Licenza and PhD 2008 and 2012). He worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen and Hamilton LLP (Rome office) from 2007 to 2009. He passed the bar exam in Italy (Rome). He holds an LLM degree from the New York University School of Law, where he served as Hauser Global LLM Fellow and was awarded the Jerome Lipper Prize. He worked as university trainee at the International Court of Justice (The Hague), assisting H.E. Judge Cançado Trindade and H.E. Keith (2010/2011).
Senate reform
If PTI is serious about making a better Senate, it should bring together experts, legislators to provide suggestions
The writer is a lawyer, formerly practicing and teaching law in Lahore, and currently based in Singapore. He holds an LL.M. from New York University where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He tweets @Hassan A Niazi
A constitutional amendment requires broad consensus on what is best for the country and democracy in the long run.
This isn’t what is happening around the proposed amendment to eliminate the secret ballot from the Senate election process. Instead, the government has displayed a strategy marred by shallow thinking rather than deep reflection.
Trump’s last stand
The writer is a lawyer, formerly practising and teaching law in Lahore, and currently based in Singapore. He holds an LLM from New York University where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He tweets @HNiaziii
In the end, Donald Trump did make history. Just not the way he would have wanted.
Before his tenure as President, Congress had only impeached a president twice in its history. By the end of his term that number has doubled. He is the first American president to be impeached twice.
Definitely, not the way he wanted things to end.
Distinguishing this impeachment from the one that happened a year ago is the existence of bipartisan support, with even Trump’s enabler-in-chief, Mitch McConnell, adding his voice to the chorus of discontent against Trump’s actions. A man that spent the last four years as Trump’s most loyal acolyte appears to have grown a conscience, or more likely, saw that the ship was sinking and decided to cut his losses.
The art of blackmail
The Hazara community can hardly be blamed for taking steps to demand the Prime Minister’s attention
The writer is a lawyer, formerly practising and teaching law in Lahore, and currently based in Singapore. He holds an LLM from New York University where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He tweets @HNiaziii
Leadership without empathy leads to tragedy.
That the Prime Minister has little patience for political dissent is clear. Yet, even his most cynical opponents must have been shocked at how he managed to make a protest by a persecuted minority all about himself.
The term ‘gaslighting’ refers to a method where someone is manipulated into questioning their own sanity. A form of psychological manipulation that is abhorrent if done by an ordinary person, it is especially distressing if done by an elected Prime Minister towards an oppressed group.
Eternal grief
The writer is a lawyer, formerly practising and teaching law in Lahore, and currently based in Singapore. He holds an LLM from New York University where he was a Hauser Global Scholar. He tweets @HNiaziii
Why must children suffer for this country to realise its mistakes?
The list of children we have failed is long: Zainab Ansari, Malala Yousafzai, Aitzaz Hasan, the children of APS Peshawar. They had to suffer for the sins of this country’s rulers and elite who have grown so distant from the plight of common people that only the suffering of children gets their attention.