A tension lies at the heart of family law. Expressed in the language of rights and duties, it seeks to impose enforceable obligations on individuals linked to each other by ties that are usually regarded as based on love or blood. Taking a contextual approach that draws on histo…
A tension lies at the heart of family law. Expressed in the language of rights and duties, it seeks to impose enforceable obligations on individuals linked to each other by ties that are usually regarded as based on love or blood. Taking a contextual approach that draws on histo…
Introduction -- Children's Best Interests and Children's and Parents' Rights -- Adoption Cases in the European Court of Human Rights -- Adoption Cases in the Courts in England and Wales -- Alternatives to Non-Consensual Adoption -- Conclusion. "This book explores non-consensual…
"This book explores non-consensual adoption - an area of law which has sparked considerable debate amongst academics, practitioners and the judiciary nationally and internationally. The emphasis of this book is on the circumstances in which non-consensual adoption may be regarde…
"Demonstrating the centrality of gender relations, law, and Siam's Malay Muslims to the history of modern Thailand, Subject Siam examines the structures and social history of jurisprudence to gain insight into Siam's unique position within Southeast Asian history. Tamara Loos el…
Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins …
Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, though it v…
This important edited collection is the culmination of research undertaken by the Children's Rights Judgments Project. This initiative involved academic experts revisiting existing case law, drawn from a range of legal sub-disciplines and jurisdictions, and redrafting the judgme…
"This volume is a collection of articles by scholars across disciplines to create a discourse of family law independent of Religious Personal Law, whilst striving for fairness and justice to all. It demonstrates the artificiality of the public-private divide and seeks the system…
Sovyet Sosyalist Cumhuriyetler Birliğinden ayrılarak 1991 yılında bağımsızlık aldığı günden bu yana Kazakistanlılar bin yılı aşkın süreyle mensubu oldukları İslam'a yeniden bir dönüş, yöneliş ve arayış içindedirler. Sovyetler Birliği dönemi sonrasın da kendini gösteren bu arayış…
The research study was conducted to analyze effect of an attendance support team in urban middle schools. The study utilized a six-month time window using students in three middle schools that accumulated five unexcused absences. The attendance support team was comprised of a sc…
Conjugal relationships have faced numerous changes in recent history. The struggle between private and public ordering has compelled changes in the personal and the economic spheres of conjugal relationships. This thesis explores this debate through a critical analysis of a prop…
This dissertation examines the emergence and development of traditions of family law among East Syrian and West Syrian Christians in Muslim-ruled Syria, Iraq, and Iran between the late eighth and early fourteenth centuries CE. With the general interest of integrating the history…
Women in Senegal have made meaningful strides through the application of a parity law in the parliament that witnessed a historic 64 women out 150 members of parliament (Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2013). Employing Drude Dahlerup's Critical Mass Theory and the concept of `critica…
This dissertation examines disputing and dispute resolution primarily among married couples in the small city of Saint-Louis, in the northwest comer of Senegal, West Africa. The goal of this project is two-fold: first, to locate “couples disputing” in the context of the culture …
O presente trabalho tem o objetivo geral de realizar uma abordagem jusfundamentalista da temática da convivência familiar, despertando a comunidade científica para o fato de que todos e, em especial, as crianças e os adolescentes, têm o direito a uma família, o que pode ser um f…