by Livia Holden and Sylvia Vatuk ABSTRACT This paper explores and analyses the management of property rights by Muslim women at the level both of customary jurisdictions and of official law-courts in India and in Pakistan in the context of ongoing pressures for developing a global legal framework of human rights. Through a multidisciplinary...
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LSA panel: Non-State Law and Governance in South Asia and in the Diasporas
Law and Society Association 2012 International Meeting Honolulu, Hawai’i – 5-8 June Livia Holden; Lahore University of Management Sciences (Session Organizer) Marc Galanter, U. of Wisconsin/London School of Econ & PolSci. (Co-Chair) Livia Holden, Lahore University of Management Sciences (Co-Chair) This session focuses on the South Asian networks that act as referents for the settlement of justice...
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Academia on the Frontline
For reasons ranging from the global crisis and the shrinking job market to the disillusion with the establishment of academia but also including wanderlust, identity, worldviews, research, and not least the proactive hiring of mushrooming universities around the world, an increasing number of academics at different career-stages spend time at institutions located in socially...
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Pakistan
Prevention of Anti-Women Practices (Criminal Law Amendment) Act, 2011 The Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill, 2012
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Law practices and property rights in Muslim rural contexts (CFP)
« L’éventail du droit : pratique du droit et propriété dans les mondes ruraux musulmans de l’Afrique et de l’Asie » Yazid Ben Hounet and Alice Wilson L’étude du droit en milieu rural, et dans le contexte des sociétés musulmanes, a de manière générale privilégiée celle de la sharî‘a (droit musulman) et/ou du ‘ûrf ou...
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Pakistan: National Commission on the Status of Women Bill 2012
On the 2nd February 2012 the Senate approved the Status of Women Bill that provides for the establishment of a commission with the mandate to examine policies, programmes and other initiatives on women’s rights and gender equality, and to make recommendations. More
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Women’s Property Rights and Access to Justice in India – K. Bates
BATES, K., Women’s Property Rights and Access to Justice in India : A Socio-Legal Ethnography of Widowhood and Inheritance Practices in Maharashtra. Thèse de doctorat, Département d’anthropologie, Université McGill, 2005.
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Pakistan: Bill against Women’s Disinheritance
“The bill recommends punishment for giving female in marriage or otherwise in ‘badla-e-sulh’, wani or swara. It says, “Whoever gives a female in marriage or otherwise compels her to enter into marriage, as ‘badla-e-sulh’, wanni, or swara or any other custom or practice under any name, in consideration of settling a civil dispute...
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In the Shadow of Shari’ah: Islam, Islamic Law, and Democracy in Pakistan
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“Divorce Among Indian Muslims. Survey Report from Bombay and Pune”
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“Muslim Women’s Rights to Inheritance. Shari‘a law and its practice among the Dawwodi Bohras of Udaipur, Rajasthan”
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“Women, Land, and Law: Dispute Resolution at the Village Level”
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“Coniugality, Law, and State: Inheritance Rights as Pivot Control in Northern India”
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“Inheritance Rights for Women. A Response to Some Commonly Expressed Fears”
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“Frogs in a Well. Indian Women in Purdah”
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