Observer Report
Phoenix
Arizona Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice (Retd) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani has been awarded the 2020 J. Clifford Wallace Award in recognition of his extraordinary career as a judge and a jurist. During his 30-year-long decorated career from 1994 to 2014, Justice (Retd) Jillani also served as Pakistan’s representative judge at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. He is the co-chair of the World Justice Project, which works to lead a global, multidisciplinary effort to strengthen the Rule of Law for the development of communities of opportunity and equity. The award was given by the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, a body of leading lawyers from around the world, who “affirm the strength brought to the law by a lawyer’s personal religious conviction” and “strive through public service and professional excellence to promote fairness and virtue founded upon the rule of law.”
