Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Sezgin, Yuksel

Cambridge University Press

10/2015

322

Mole

Inglês

9781107636491

15 a 20 dias

Yuksel Sezgin looks at the impact of state-enforced religious family laws on human rights in Israel, Egypt and India, identifies the various resistance strategies which rights activists have successfully mobilized in these jurisdictions and makes proposals for the integration of universal human rights principles into religious legal systems.
1. Introduction; 2. Personal status, nation-building, and the postcolonial state; 3. The impact of state-enforced personal status laws on human rights; 4. A fragmented confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Israel; 5. A unified confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in Egypt; 6. A unified semi-confessional system: state-enforced religious family laws and human rights in India; 7. Conclusion: upholding human rights under religious legal systems.
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