Adjudication in religious family laws : cultural accommodation, legal pluralism, and gender equality in India /

This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. In this model the civic and religious sources of legal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Solanki, Gopika, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cambridge studies in law and society.
Temas:
Domestic relations > India.
Religion and law > India.
Legal polycentricity > India.
Justice, Administration of > India.
Religion et droit > Inde.
Pluralisme juridique > Inde.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Domestic relations
Justice, Administration of
Legal polycentricity
Religion and law
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The shared adjudication model : theoretical framework and arguments
  • State law and the adjudication process : marriage, divorce, and the conjugal family in Hindu and Muslim personal laws
  • Making and unmaking the conjugal family : the administration of Hindu law in society
  • Juristic diversity, contestations over "Islamic law, " and women's rights : regulation of matrimonial matters in Muslim personal law
  • Conclusion.

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