SYED SHABBAR RAZA RIZVI, LLB (Pb), LLM (London), is an expert on Constitutional Law. He has been practicing law before the superior courts of Pakistan since 1980 and has appeared in some of the most significant constitutional cases of our times. His first book Commentary on the Constitution of Pakistan was published in 1992. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, and a founding member of the SAARC Law Conference launched in Colombo in 1991. He has also worked as a research scholar in the library of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, during which period he attended court proceedings before the International Criminal Tribunal in 1997. Mr Rizvi has held the posts of Additional Advocate General Punjab and been Acting Advocate General Punjab on several occasions. He is a regular commentator in the daily press and in law journals on constitutional issues. Mr Rizvi has taught Constitutional Law at the Punjab University, Punjab Law College and Quaid-e-Azam Law College since 1985.