Zafar Kalanauri is a Teacher & Trainer. He refers to his past & present students as his Kids. He imparts trainings by running clinics to my students on advocacy skills by working on real cases & also take them to courts. During the court visits courtrooms turn into classrooms & interactive sessions of students/trainees with the honorable judges whether it is Civil court, District court, High Court & Supreme Court.
Zafar Kalanauri motivates & trains the next generation of lawyers, students, judges, teachers, leaders & decision makers in many institutions in Pakistan & abroad.
Visited USA Four times on the invitation of Institute for the Study & Development of Legal Systems (I.S.D.LS), San Francisco to study the USA legal system. Especially with regard to the implementation of different ADR Mechanisms like Case Management, Court Settlement, Early Neutral Evaluation, Non-Binding Arbitration and Mediation for quick resolution of disputes, as an alternative to adversarial system.
Continuously involved (as leader of the core group) with the ‘Civil Justice Reform Project’ being carried by the ISDLS & USIS, Pakistan since 1997, which successfully ran Pilot Projects for expeditious disposal of Family cases and Commercial Cases by use of Case Management & Mediation Techniques Represented Pakistan in a number of Seminars, Workshops and Conferences in USA, UK, France, China, Bangladesh and Singapore.
LUMS
Zafar is teaching Legal Aid Clinic to final year LL.B students. Legal tour conducted by him of the final Year students of (LUMS) with Ms.Shahid Saeed AD/ASJ Lahore after watching e-trial proceedings conducted through a video link in a murder trial.
Punjab University Law College
Educational tour of the Punjab University Law College was conducted by Zafar Kalanauri to Sessions Court & High Court (2020)
Pakistan Law College
Helped develop a Computerized Bar Entrance Exam, approved for implementation by Punjab Bar Council. Served on Pakistan Bar Council’s Legal Education Committee (2001-2006), framing uniform Bar exam rules & affiliation guidelines for private law colleges.
Mock Trials Services
Zafar Kalanauri led legal mock trials and Punjab University’s Moot Court (2019). He developed courses on Advocacy, Civil Litigation, and Mediation, using audiovisuals for training.