DR NAUMAN REAYAT.

I wish to introduce myself as the one who brought judges, journalists, civil society organisations, scholars from across the globe together to create this network, organise all its activities (except the international conference that I co-organised with my Co-Convener between 27-29 September 2023), and developed and run this website. The details of these activities are available on different pages of this website. The network’s history and my activities are connected to each other.

TEACHING

Currently, I am teaching Analysing law, EU law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Canadian Constitutional Law at the Leicester Law School.

In 2022, I briefly led the Torts, Jurisprudence, and Legal Skills and Methods modules at Institute of Law, Jersey. I developed lectures, assessments, and tutorials of these three modules. In the same year, I taught political ideologies and political parties, Global Governance and Regulation, Human Rights, UK Government : System and Structures, and Public Law at the University of Law.

Ever since I secured the Certificate of Qualification from Federal Law Society Canada (FLSC) in December 2021, I briefly provided private online tuition in Canadian Constitutional Law, Canadian Contract Law, Canadian Criminal Law, and the Foundations of Canadian Law to people in South Asia and Africa who wish to pass the exams conducted by National Committee of Accreditation, FLSC to become a lawyer in Canada. The pass rate of my students was 97%.

Between 2016 and 2021, I taught the Individual State, and Society, Democratic Politics of UK and EU, Research Integrity, Research Methodology, and Social Policy modules at the International Pathway College, Department of Politics, and Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York. I also developed a non-accredited “Politics and Society of the Global South” module for the Centre of Lifelong Learning, University of York. Additionally, I secured Associate Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy, UK in 2019.

Between 2013 and 2016, I taught the following subjects in Pakistan: South Asian History, Research Methodology, Judicial and Constitutional Developments in Pakistan, Comparative Politics, and Pakistan Studies.

RESEARCH

My PhD research is one of the very few interdisciplinary studies that explained distinct aspects of de jure (constitutional guarantees provided to the judiciary against other branches of the state) and de facto (behavioural) judicial independence in the contexts of both authoritarian (where powers are centralised in an office held by an individual or a group) and hybrid regimes (a mix of autocratic and democratic features) and advanced the field of judicial independence by offering new insights: a combination of social, political, and legal factors shapes the nature and scope of judicial independence.

During my ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021-2022) at the Cardiff School of Law and Politics, I secured two monograph contracts, one with Palgrave Macmillan for the publication of a monograph on judicial independence in Indonesia, Pakistan and Colombia, and other with Springer on judicial populism in Pakistan. The former is based on my postdoctoral work and goes beyond the case of Pakistan and compares the nature and scope of judicial independence in Colombia, Indonesia, and Pakistan and the latter is based on my PhD research.

PUBLICATIONS:

Nauman Reayat, Juristocracy before, during, and after COVID-19: Evidence from Pakistan (2023). The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Nijhoff. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004538627

Nauman R, Iftikhar A, Jehanzeb K, Tariq R. Fiscal Decentralisation: What Does the International Experience Suggests. Life Sci J 2014;11(7s):1-10]. (ISSN:1097-8135). doi:10.7537/marslsj1107s14.01

Nauman R, Iftikhar A, Jehanzeb K, and Tariq Rahim. 2014. Fiscal Decentralisation and its effects on Health Sector of Pakistan Economics, Discussion Paper No 2014-16 See full paper here

Research Funding

I completed my fully funded (£80000 allocated by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) PhD project on judicial independence in authoritarian and hybrid regimes from from 2016 to 2020.

During my PhD research, I secured £1,250 from the Graduate Research School, University of York between 2017 and 2019 for different international conferences. $500 from the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) for the CPSA annual conference 2019. $200 from the Australian New Zealand Studies Association of North America (ANZSANA) for the ANZSANA Annual Conference at the University of Texas, USA, 2019. £1,500 from the Department of Politics, University of York, UK between 2016 and 2018 for different international conferences, and £250 granted by the European Consortium Political Research (ECPR) for its annual conference in the year 2017.

I received £120,442.00 from Cardiff University and ESRC for his postdoctoral project on judicial independence in authoritarian and hybrid regimes for the year 2021-2022. Additionally, I completed a one-year Postdoctoral Fellows Development Programme jointly organised by the ESRC and Bridget Sealey Associates.

Impact Outside Academia

During my PhD research, I presented some of my findings on online courts in the International Judicial Conference of the Supreme Court of Pakistan 2018. My findings were processed for further consideration by the Judicial Decision-Making Committee of Pakistan, which sought to introduce judicial reforms on speedy and inexpensive justice and to address the backlog of cases through the usage of online courts.

Activities outside academia

SPORTS: I was top scorer for the Civil Service Cricket Team in one of the cricket matches during York & District Senior League Galtres division two in 2016. This was reported in York Press. I was awarded the Best Bowler award for Plonge Cricket Team during the 2017 cricket tournament organised by the University of York.