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Please join us for a conversation with Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, former chief justice of Pakistan and the 2025 recipient of the Bolch Prize for the Rule of Law. In 2007, after General Musharraf declared a state of emergency to subvert Supreme Court decisions relating to his reelection, Justice Jillani was among a group of senior judges who refused to take a new oath of loyalty to Musharraf and were relieved of their judicial duties. This ignited the Lawyers' Movement, in which lawyers throughout Pakistan protested the Musharraf regime's assault on judicial independence. Justice Jillani was reinstated in 2009 after Musharraf resigned. His work and groundbreaking opinions advanced gender equality, religious liberty, and judicial independence in South Asia and globally. Lunch and seating provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Sponsored by the Bolch Judicial Institute. For more information, please contact Kristin Triebel at kristin.triebel@law.duke.edu.