Kuala Lampur, Oct. 7 -- Law is a discipline, wrote Kathleen M. Sullivan, then Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School (1999 to 2004) - the first woman to head any of Stanford's seven schools and the first woman Dean at a top three law school in the US.

A discipline represents a technique, a method of analysis, a way of working, which makes law distinctive. It gives normative force to interpretation and analysis, using "a set of interpretive techniques of problem solving that disaggregate and order the messy jumble of facts through which conflict presents itself".

The above was written in 2002.

Now, I am convinced of the use of "interpretive techniques of problem solving" by High Court Judge Raja Azlan Shah (as he then was) in ...