Gopika Solanki

Adjudication in Religious Family Laws

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that the shared adjudication model regarding the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 438
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 783g
• ISBN-13: 9781107006102
• ISBN-10: 1107006104
• Artikelnr.: 33216898

Autorenporträt

Gopika Solanki is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Canada. She is co-author of Journey from Violence to Crime: A Study of Domestic Violence in the City of Mumbai. She has contributed articles to various journals and books.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. The shared adjudication model: theoretical framework
and arguments; 3. State law and the adjudication process: marriage,
divorce, and the conjugal family in Hindu and Muslim personal law; 4.
Making and unmaking the conjugal family: the administration of Hindu law in
society; 5. Juristic diversity, contestations over 'Islamic law' and
women's rights: regulation of matrimonial matters in Muslim personal law;
6. Conclusion.