Afghanistan’s plural legal system is governed by a diverse set of laws and institutions that includes Islamic law, customary law, state positive law, and international human rights law. The research examines the complex interplay and interaction of these different bodies of law …
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This dissertation is an attempt to recover abandoned pathways in religious Zionist thought. It identifies a fundamental shift in the legal philosophy of religious Zionists, demonstrating that around the time of the establishment of the State of Israel, religious Zionists develop…
Current Knowledge: Normative pluralism (plural sources of social ordering) has existed in in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan ) since pre-Tsarist times. Respected male elders (aksakals), for example, led nomadic groups where customar…
Prevailing approaches in the comparative historical study of peasant mobilization assume the relationship between peasants and state institutions to be inherently antagonistic. By contrast, this dissertation argues that locally embedded legal cultures are crucial in mediating an…
As in all legal disputes, there are many versions of this story. One party claims the other broke a contract by failing to pay off a debt. The other argues the contract was never legally binding and he was coerced into signing it in the first place. This may sound like a fairly …
Multi-religious and multi-ethnic democracies face the challenge of constructing accommodative arrangements that can both facilitate cultural diversity and ensure women's rights within religio-cultural groups. This thesis is an investigation of the Indian state's policy of legal …
This dissertation examines the religious transformation of the Volga-Ural Muslim community during the long nineteenth century with a special focus on the ulama and shari'a . It argues that these Islamic institutions as well as the Muslim population have experienced important cha…
Family is the foundation society. Women are the backbone of families even in fundamental patriarchal society like Malaysia. However, Malaysia's system of religious accommodation results in different rights available to individuals based on the states diverse religious affiliatio…