Gebundenes Buch

Equality, Plurality and Personal Status Laws

A Research Companion

Herausgeber: Yakin, Ayang Utriza; Zemirli, Zohra Aziade; Kanchana, Radhika; Bernard-Maugiron, Nathalie; Halperin, Jean-Louis; Dupret, Baudouin

Beschreibung

Today, a plurality of personal statuses in family matters persists in a significant number of African and Asian countries. This volume identifies 34 countries as presenting this configuration and provides a comprehensive overview of their legal systems, examining the relationship between the plurality of personal laws and the principle of equality. After a long period of stability dating from the colonial era, these countries are seeing more and more conflicts involving the plurality of personal status laws. The work takes a comparative and multi-disciplinary approach to understand the different aspects and levels involved in this heterogeneity and link them with the concepts of equality and non-discrimination. The first part of the book presents the concepts used to analyse personal status laws in their historical, sociological, ethnographic, and legal contexts. The chapters in the second part, each devoted to a country or in some cases a group of neighbouring countries, are written by specialists drawn from a large international and interdisciplinary pool. With its multi-disciplinary approach, including law, history and anthropology, the work will be a major contribution to the field of "socio-historical jurisprudence". It will be of interest to academics and researchers working in the areas of socio-legal studies, human rights, religion-inspired law and law and politics.

Autor

is a senior researcher at the French National Research Institute of for Sustainable Development (IRD), France and adjunct faculty at Sciences Po Paris. Baudouin Dupret is Directeur de recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France, at SciencesPo Bordeaux and visiting professor at the University of Louvain, Belgium. Jean-Louis Halperin is a professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, emeritus since 1st January 2026. Radhika Kanchana is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Theory and Analysis of Law (CTAD) at the University of Paris Nanterre, France. Ayang Utriza Yakin is a research associate at the Catholic University of Louvain Belgium and a postdoctoral fellow at Sciences Po Bordeaux France. is an associate researcher in law at Centre Arabe de Recherches et d'Etudes Politiques (CAREP), France and a postdoctoral fellow at Centre Population et Développement (Ceped), Université Paris Cité, IRD, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 684
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032428116
• ISBN-10: 1032428112
• Artikelnr.: 76036874