Add to ORKGThis Essay briefly illustrates the descriptive deficiency in typical discussions about family law, especially relating to religious citizens, and also describes new possible pathways and developments. Because this Symposium is focused on Sharia, Family, and Democracy: Religious Norms and Family Law in Pluralistic Democratic States, this Essay particularly draws on examples from Islam. Part I outlines tensions faced by members of both minority and majority religious communities, who view their family issues as controlled by both their religious community and by the demands of the civil state. Part II explores possible paths ahead for the intersection of religious beliefs and civil law on marriage and divorce in the United States. The Essay t...
In some Western countries with Muslim minorities, there has been debate in the last few years about ...
Civil law in the United States rarely helps to enforce religious standards or demands that people pe...
The global Muslim population is currently estimated at 1.8 billion people, comprising twenty-four pe...
In many areas of law and society, religion and law exercise “overlapping jurisdictions.” Often such ...
The premise of this introductory Essay is that it is not possible to have a religiously valid (or cu...
This Symposium offers the first-of-its-kind comparative analysis of pluralistic family law developme...
This chapter considers how civil and religious family law intersect in the U.S. legal system and how...
Recent controversies involving Islamic family law in the context of liberal jurisdictions (as exempl...
Until recent years, authorities in the United States gave little serious consideration to the marria...
“Legal pluralism” is hot, particularly in family law. As family law and practice in the United State...
The possibility that Muslims might use private arbitration as a forum in which their family law disp...
In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equa...
America has long been seen as the capital of religious freedom and individual rights. In recent year...
The article focuses on role of the U.S. courts in confronting religious laws in dispute resolution o...
When Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams suggested that some “accommodation” of Muslim family law was...
In some Western countries with Muslim minorities, there has been debate in the last few years about ...
Civil law in the United States rarely helps to enforce religious standards or demands that people pe...
The global Muslim population is currently estimated at 1.8 billion people, comprising twenty-four pe...
In many areas of law and society, religion and law exercise “overlapping jurisdictions.” Often such ...
The premise of this introductory Essay is that it is not possible to have a religiously valid (or cu...
This Symposium offers the first-of-its-kind comparative analysis of pluralistic family law developme...
This chapter considers how civil and religious family law intersect in the U.S. legal system and how...
Recent controversies involving Islamic family law in the context of liberal jurisdictions (as exempl...
Until recent years, authorities in the United States gave little serious consideration to the marria...
“Legal pluralism” is hot, particularly in family law. As family law and practice in the United State...
The possibility that Muslims might use private arbitration as a forum in which their family law disp...
In many regions of the world, rights guaranteed under the civil law, including rights to gender equa...
America has long been seen as the capital of religious freedom and individual rights. In recent year...
The article focuses on role of the U.S. courts in confronting religious laws in dispute resolution o...
When Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams suggested that some “accommodation” of Muslim family law was...
In some Western countries with Muslim minorities, there has been debate in the last few years about ...
Civil law in the United States rarely helps to enforce religious standards or demands that people pe...
The global Muslim population is currently estimated at 1.8 billion people, comprising twenty-four pe...