Shoaib Ghias Wins Law & Social Inquiry Graduate Student Paper Prize

JSP doctoral student Shoaib A. Ghias has been selected as the winner of the Law & Social Inquiry 2009 Graduate Student Paper prize for his paper, "Miscarriage of Chief Justice: Lawyers, Media, and the Struggle for Judicial Independence in Pakistan." Shoaib wrote the paper for the Sawyer Seminar last year under the guidance
of Malcolm Feeley. Shoaib also credits conversations with Gordon
Silverstein, Bob Kagan, Martin Shapiro, Tom Ginsburg and Manoj Mate. The paper will be published in the journal, Law & Social Inquiry, the peer reviewed journal of the American Bar Foundation.