Personal family law systems – a comparative and international human rights analysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12889525
AutoresHadas Tagari (Bar-Ilan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen8
Número2
Páginas231-252
Fecha de publicación2012-04-30
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Law in Context (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-5523 • E-ISSN: 1744-5531
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1744552312000067
OpenAlexW2134512827
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas25

This article analyses the structures and substances of personal systems of family law based on religious affiliation within their social, political and historical contexts, and explores the varied ways in which they implicate the human rights of those governed by these systems, and the way international law and jurisprudence of human rights respond to these challenges. This analysis suggests that looking at the specific manifestations of personal family law systems in concrete contexts illuminates significant human rights implications which have not received sufficient attention in mainstream human rights discourse, for various legal, cultural and political reasons. The contexts which this article will draw on are personal family law systems in Israel, India, Lebanon and Morocco, which comprise a varied sample of family law structures and legal, cultural, social and political contexts

Comparative law · Family law · Human rights · Jurisprudence · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa