Werner F Menski
Biographic Data
| ID | 698433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Werner F Menski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Werner F |
| FAMILY NAME | Menski |
| SIGNATURE | MENSKI W F |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2058-2074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence, by Christopher T. Fleming
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence, by Christopher T. Fleming. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi + 252 pp., £65 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-885237-7 (hb)
The (Plural) Nation as a Community of Judges
M.K. Raghavendra, The Hindu Nation. A Reconciliation with Modernity (New Delhi: Bloomsbury India, 2021), ix + 310 pp
Law as a global entity through Italian eyes and minds
This contribution discusses, from the perspective of global comparative law, how Mariano Croce’s English translation of a major book by an important early-Italian scholar, Santi Romano, allows helpful insights into early twentieth-century Italian thinking about the intrinsically plural nature of law. This debate connects directly to current worldwide discourses about legal pluralism, showing how Romano’s exciting project forms an early precursor …
Young Muslim Change-Makers
This insightful study on practical Islam, originally a French dissertation in sociology, also constitutes a personal protest against reductionist representations of ‘Muslims’, ‘the West’, ‘seculari
Religion, Governance and the Need for Plurality-Conscious Moderation
Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Many challenges exist regarding the discourse over human rights in South East Asia due to the complex relationship between the region’s myriad cultures, laws, religions and political desires. This socio-political environment produces a number of varying, and often contradictory, interpretations of human rights, as well as differing opinions on how they should be implemented. On one hand, some countries in Southeast Asia have internalized internat…
Justice, Epistemic Violence in South Asian Studies and the Nebulous Entity of Caste in Our Age of Chaos
This editorial article covers much more than Dalits and untouchability, because ‘caste’ itself is about life, similar to the inevitably related human constructs of ‘law’, ‘religion’, ‘society’, ‘culture’ and also ‘race’ and ‘gender’. This article and the contributions in this Special Issue will not resolve the ongoing turbulences over caste, but may be useful tools to identify avenues for more constructive debates, rather than acrimonious exchang…
Still Asking for the Moon? Opening Windows of Opportunity for Better Justice in India
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 125 - 147
Governance and governability in South Asian family laws and in diaspora
This paper, providing one example each from Indian and from Pakistani law, with heavily contested litigation fallouts under English law and in English courts, discusses first why there are significant elements of mistrust in local and particularly translocal relationships that impact on how individuals and whole communities make choices in relation to dispute resolution. Conflicts arise not only over legal processes, costs and delays, but also in…
Modern Indian Family Law
This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code
Ancient and Modern Boundary Crossings Between Personal Laws and Civil Law in Composite India
Introduction: the realities of pluralism The starting point of this chapter is somewhat different from that of most contributors to this volume, in part because of my late-comer status to the project, as well as my outsider perspective. Some European legal systems, but also Canada and the United States, have over time developed highly regulated state-centric methods of family law management that seemed to leave little or no room for religious and…
Minna Saavala, Middle Class Moralities. Everyday Struggle Over Belonging and Prestige in India (New Delhi
Slumdog Law, Colonial Tummy Aches and the Redefinition of Family Law in India
Hindu Law
This book presents a study on a postmodernist analysis of classical Hindu law, which has become neglected due to the modernist assumptions about the increasing irrelevance of ‘religious’ legal systems. The book is split into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and conceptual background of Hindu law, while the second part concentrates on five facets of Hindu law that go beyond tradition and modernity, namely the Hindu marriage la…
Comparative Law in a Global Context
Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model. It highlights the inadequacies of current Western theoretical approaches in comparative law, international law, legal theory and jurisprudence, especially for studying Asian and African laws, arguing that they are too parochial and eurocentric to meet global challenges.…
On Common Laws
On Common Laws Get access Glenn H. Patrick. On Common Laws. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii, 158 pp. $95.00. Werner Menski Werner Menski School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 461–462, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039568 Published: 01 October 2005
Modern Indian Family Law
Books
Colin Holmes, John Bull's Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871–1971, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988, 448 pp., £33.00 h.b., £10.95 p.b. Patricia R. Pessar (ed), When Borders Don't Divide: Labor Migration and Refugee Movements in the Americas, New York: Center for Migration Studies in association with the Center for Immigration Policy and Refugee Assistance, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1988, 220 pp., $17.50 cloth, $12.95 p.b. Da…
Hindus and the Law in Bangladesh
Books
Jeanne Gregory, Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality London: Sage Publications, 1987, 216 pp., £22.50 h.b., £7.95 p.b. Camilla Palmer and Kate Poulton, Sex and Race Discrimination in Employment London: Legal Action Group, 1987, 189 pp., £14 p.b. John W. Shaw, Peter G. Nordlie and Richard M. Shapiro (eds), Strategies for Improving Race Relations: The Anglo‐American Experience Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 226 pp., £25 h…
Modern Indian Family Law
This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code
Still Asking for the Moon? Opening Windows of Opportunity for Better Justice in India
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 125 - 147
Justice, Epistemic Violence in South Asian Studies and the Nebulous Entity of Caste in Our Age of Chaos
This editorial article covers much more than Dalits and untouchability, because ‘caste’ itself is about life, similar to the inevitably related human constructs of ‘law’, ‘religion’, ‘society’, ‘culture’ and also ‘race’ and ‘gender’. This article and the contributions in this Special Issue will not resolve the ongoing turbulences over caste, but may be useful tools to identify avenues for more constructive debates, rather than acrimonious exchang…
Hindus and the Law in Bangladesh
Young Muslim Change-Makers
This insightful study on practical Islam, originally a French dissertation in sociology, also constitutes a personal protest against reductionist representations of ‘Muslims’, ‘the West’, ‘seculari
Religion, Governance and the Need for Plurality-Conscious Moderation
Slumdog Law, Colonial Tummy Aches and the Redefinition of Family Law in India
Hindus and the Law in Bangladesh
Books
Jeanne Gregory, Sex, Race and the Law: Legislating for Equality London: Sage Publications, 1987, 216 pp., £22.50 h.b., £7.95 p.b. Camilla Palmer and Kate Poulton, Sex and Race Discrimination in Employment London: Legal Action Group, 1987, 189 pp., £14 p.b. John W. Shaw, Peter G. Nordlie and Richard M. Shapiro (eds), Strategies for Improving Race Relations: The Anglo‐American Experience Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1987, 226 pp., £25 h…
Books
Colin Holmes, John Bull's Island: Immigration and British Society, 1871–1971, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1988, 448 pp., £33.00 h.b., £10.95 p.b. Patricia R. Pessar (ed), When Borders Don't Divide: Labor Migration and Refugee Movements in the Americas, New York: Center for Migration Studies in association with the Center for Immigration Policy and Refugee Assistance, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1988, 220 pp., $17.50 cloth, $12.95 p.b. Da…
Modern Indian Family Law
On Common Laws
On Common Laws Get access Glenn H. Patrick. On Common Laws. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xviii, 158 pp. $95.00. Werner Menski Werner Menski School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 461–462, https://doi.org/10.2307/30039568 Published: 01 October 2005
Comparative Law in a Global Context
Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model. It highlights the inadequacies of current Western theoretical approaches in comparative law, international law, legal theory and jurisprudence, especially for studying Asian and African laws, arguing that they are too parochial and eurocentric to meet global challenges.…
Hindu Law
This book presents a study on a postmodernist analysis of classical Hindu law, which has become neglected due to the modernist assumptions about the increasing irrelevance of ‘religious’ legal systems. The book is split into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and conceptual background of Hindu law, while the second part concentrates on five facets of Hindu law that go beyond tradition and modernity, namely the Hindu marriage la…
Slumdog Law, Colonial Tummy Aches and the Redefinition of Family Law in India
Ancient and Modern Boundary Crossings Between Personal Laws and Civil Law in Composite India
Introduction: the realities of pluralism The starting point of this chapter is somewhat different from that of most contributors to this volume, in part because of my late-comer status to the project, as well as my outsider perspective. Some European legal systems, but also Canada and the United States, have over time developed highly regulated state-centric methods of family law management that seemed to leave little or no room for religious and…
Minna Saavala, Middle Class Moralities. Everyday Struggle Over Belonging and Prestige in India (New Delhi
Governance and governability in South Asian family laws and in diaspora
This paper, providing one example each from Indian and from Pakistani law, with heavily contested litigation fallouts under English law and in English courts, discusses first why there are significant elements of mistrust in local and particularly translocal relationships that impact on how individuals and whole communities make choices in relation to dispute resolution. Conflicts arise not only over legal processes, costs and delays, but also in…
Modern Indian Family Law
This text presents an overview of the major issues and topics in current developments in Indian family law. Indian law has produced a number of very important innovations in the past two decades, which are also highly instructive for law reform debates in western and other jurisdictions. Topics discussed are: marriage, divorce, polygamy, maintenance, property and the Uniform Civil Code
Justice, Epistemic Violence in South Asian Studies and the Nebulous Entity of Caste in Our Age of Chaos
This editorial article covers much more than Dalits and untouchability, because ‘caste’ itself is about life, similar to the inevitably related human constructs of ‘law’, ‘religion’, ‘society’, ‘culture’ and also ‘race’ and ‘gender’. This article and the contributions in this Special Issue will not resolve the ongoing turbulences over caste, but may be useful tools to identify avenues for more constructive debates, rather than acrimonious exchang…
Still Asking for the Moon? Opening Windows of Opportunity for Better Justice in India
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 125 - 147
Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Many challenges exist regarding the discourse over human rights in South East Asia due to the complex relationship between the region’s myriad cultures, laws, religions and political desires. This socio-political environment produces a number of varying, and often contradictory, interpretations of human rights, as well as differing opinions on how they should be implemented. On one hand, some countries in Southeast Asia have internalized internat…
Law as a global entity through Italian eyes and minds
This contribution discusses, from the perspective of global comparative law, how Mariano Croce’s English translation of a major book by an important early-Italian scholar, Santi Romano, allows helpful insights into early twentieth-century Italian thinking about the intrinsically plural nature of law. This debate connects directly to current worldwide discourses about legal pluralism, showing how Romano’s exciting project forms an early precursor …
Young Muslim Change-Makers
This insightful study on practical Islam, originally a French dissertation in sociology, also constitutes a personal protest against reductionist representations of ‘Muslims’, ‘the West’, ‘seculari
Religion, Governance and the Need for Plurality-Conscious Moderation
The (Plural) Nation as a Community of Judges
M.K. Raghavendra, The Hindu Nation. A Reconciliation with Modernity (New Delhi: Bloomsbury India, 2021), ix + 310 pp
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence, by Christopher T. Fleming
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence, by Christopher T. Fleming. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. xvi + 252 pp., £65 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19-885237-7 (hb)
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