Reforming Family Law - Social and Political Change in Jordan and Morocco

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Implementation of Islamic family law varies widely across North Africa and the Middle East, here Dörthe Engelcke explores the reasons for this. Zusammenfassung Family law continues to be one of the most controversial legal areas in all Muslim-majority countries. In this book, Dörthe Engelcke explores the remarkable differences in the engagement with family law in the 2000s by Morocco and Jordan, both ostensibly similar regimes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: D¿rthe Engelcke, Doerthe (Max-Planck-Institut Fur Ausland Engelcke, Doerthe (Max-Planck-Institut fur auslandisches und internationales Privatrecht Engelcke, Dorthe Engelcke, Dörthe Engelcke, Dorthe (Max-Planck-Institut Fur Auslandi Engelcke, Dorthe (Max-Planck-Institut fur auslandisches und internationales Privatrecht Engelcke
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108496612
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49661-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies; Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Jordan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, 21st Century, Morocco, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Family Law, comparative law