Adjudication in Religious Family Laws - Cultural Accommodation, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Equality in India

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Argues that the shared adjudication model regarding the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. Zusammenfassung This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and civic bodies in the regulation of marriage can potentially balance cultural rights and gender equality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Gopika Solanki
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9781107610590
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61059-0
• No. of pages: 438
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and S; Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; RELIGION / General, LAW / Family Law / General, India, Religion: general, Family Law