Groundbreaking theoretical and legal approaches to resolving conflicts between gender equality and cultural practices

This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the

This collection discusses how official legal systems do and should respond to the reality of a plurality of family types and origins within their jurisdictions.

The personal law system is hugely controversial and the subject of fierce debates. This book addresses a vital issue that has received inadequate attention in t