Shuja Jamal

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Coauthor (with Prof. William Maley) of The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (forthcoming Feb. 2023) • Fulbright alum •
TEDx speaker • former HRW • Tweets on law, security, human rights, policy
The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistanhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Decline-Fall-Republican-Afghanistan/dp/1787388018/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JBNQIRIA6
Google Scholar pagehttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gtRrQZMAAAAJ&hl=en
My Twitterhttps://twitter.com/AhmadShuja

In today's example of quirky legal outcomes, this case from a Queensland court.

When you get caught using your mobile phone while driving, just argue 'my mobile phone was not a mobile phone at the relevant time.'

This guy did and he won.

#Law #AusPol

https://www.queenslandjudgments.com.au/caselaw/qmc/2022/2?fbclid=IwAR1UWfXg8UwYIi4nVMEXLgqb4SD9pB41L3EdXysPmzOJmtNbBr0aVX7N0eM

Department of Transport and Main Roads v Konrad Gordon Gallaher [2022] QMC 2 - Magistrates Court of Queensland Caselaw

Department of Transport and Main Roads v Konrad Gordon Gallaher [2022] QMC 2 | Magistrates Court of Queensland Caselaw. DIVISION: Trial Division, PROCEEDING: Application, ORIGINATING COURT: Supreme Court at Brisbane, DELIVERED ON: 6 June 2011, JUDGE: Ann Lyons J

#Cricket as played by the gods themselves. #EngvsIND #T20worldcup
England displaying clinical cricket. #T20worldcup #Cricket
In a classic experiment, 12 articles were resubmitted to the same journals in which they had already been published. Three were recognized as resubmissions. Eight of the nine articles reviewed again were rejected, often due to "serious methodological flaws."
#academicmastodon #publishing
Good run in the tournament, #NewZealand. You can go home proud 👏 #T20WC22 #Cricket
Who has contributed most to global CO2 emissions? #COP27 #AusPol
All these #ivoted posts about #electionday in the US give major birdsite vibes. #elonmusk #twitter
Tuesday update on the #mastodon growth. 135k (!!) users join yesterday. Also, I'm zooming out the plot to see the evolution in the number of new users through the last year. I'm going to need a logarithm scale pretty soon 😎

I wrote a thing: Article in current perspective section of Australian Journal of Human Rights:

'When diplomacy is more harmful to human rights than conflict: the effects of America's deal with the Taliban'

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1323238X.2022.2135168

When diplomacy is more harmful to human rights than conflict: the effects of America's deal with the Taliban

The US-Taliban deal of February 2020 preceded the violent return to power of the Taliban and the concomitant deterioration of human rights and development gains in Afghanistan. In this article, the...

Taylor & Francis