Dörthe Engelcke

Reforming Family Law

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Produktbeschreibung

Family law continues to be one of the most controversial legal areas in all Muslim-majority countries. In this book, Doerthe Engelcke explores the remarkable differences in the engagement with family law in the 2000s by Morocco and Jordan, both ostensibly similar regimes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781108721752
• ISBN-10: 1108721753
• Artikelnr.: 60011824

Autorenporträt

Dörthe Engelcke is a senior research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, Germany. She received her Ph.D. from St Antony's College, University of Oxford, in 2015 and was the co-winner of the 2016 BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for the best Ph.D. dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic awarded by a British University. Engelcke has held fellowships at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School and the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute of Advanced Study.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Colonial legal legacies and state-building
3. The contemporary legal systems
4. The impact of international law
5. The process of family law reform in Jordan
6. The process of family law reform in Morocco
7. Contested issues of Jordanian family law
8. Contested issues of Moroccan family law
9. The implementation of the 2004 law: the prevalence of multiple normativities
10. Conclusion
Index.