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Awais Leghari
I have evolving interests, and I at one point or the other, give everything I like a shot. I have played (and tested) a number of sport competitively, obtained a minors in Computer Science despite being a law major, and am currently a teaching assistant for an Astronomy/Physics course. Finance and I - I thought - are not meant to be, however I liked the interaction between finance and public policy while serving on the Finance Committee of Pakistan's Youth Parliament where I had the chance to work on a paper involving IMF's role in Pakistan. I have started reading philosophy lately, and currently I am investigating Michel De Montaigne's philosophy. It would be fair to describe me as somewhat eccentric, albeit in a good way.
I am interested in the cross-section between Law and Computer Science. I believe that Machine Learning (a branch of Artificial Intelligence) has a role to play in judicial matters, and I would like to one day work on a computing system that helps/delivers sound judgements on real life cases, using principles that have been fed to the computer. I am also interested in knowing how Computers will be able to predict and advise on International treatise development and International relations. However, I would not limit myself to this cross-section only. I would ideally want to explore more paths.
This is my first year in LLB, and I am still exploring "the legal field". I have a lot to learn, and I have a lot to see, yet. Therefore, my ambition currently revolves around being able to decide for myself where I belong in the legal field in the future.
Views on the practice of law
Practicing law is a powerful profession, and involves a lot of responsibility. It is one of the ways the essence of a good polis are conserved. For a society to sustain and progress, delivery of justice is important, and the practice of law essentially deals with this. However, there are lots of issues too, with the practice of law.
As pointed out by the out-going Chief Justice of Pakistan, Honourable Justice Jawad S Khawaja, Pakistan's legal system has a lot of problems, of which the biggest, according to him, is the time it takes for a case to be decided in a court of law. On average, it takes a case 25 years to move from the lower courts to the higher courts and eventually towards conclusion. That is a lot of time, and Pakistan's constitution promises its people speedy justice.
It is expensive to hire a lawyer. People in Pakistan are not confident of the people in black coats, and would like to avoid being entangled in a legal quagmire. For a lot of poor people who are unaware of their rights, who do not know if injustice is being done to them, it seems that the legal system is out of bounds for them, for they believe that they cannot fight for themselves and that nothing could be done, and they have valid reasons to believe so. Justice needs to be speedy, as well as cheap. Confidence needs to restored in the practice of law in Pakistan.
Reason to be here
I have a growing interest in legal studies, and I really love helping people out in trouble. This project seems exciting to me, because I want this facility to be available to people specially in the developing world, for free and on ground as well as on the internet. This is a powerful idea, and I want to contribute to it.
(Also, the spellings of internship are wrong in the question asked - I have a keen eye for detail too, did I mention that?)
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