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Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes: Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration
Contributor(s): Bano, Samia (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1512600350     ISBN-13: 9781512600353
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
OUR PRICE: $47.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Family Law - Marriage
- Law | Gender & The Law
Dewey: 346.015
LCCN: 2016038576
Series: Brandeis Series on Gender, Culture, Religion, and Law
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9" L (1.00 lbs) 304 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 02/01/2018
 
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Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law--such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation--have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of obtaining restitution through nontraditional alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms. For some, the emergence of ADRs can be understood as part of a broader liberal response to the challenges presented by the settlement of migrant communities in Western liberal democracies. Questions of rights are framed as "multicultural challenges" that give rise to important issues relating to power, authority, agency, and choice. Underpinning these debates are questions about the doctrine and practice of secularism, citizenship, belonging, and identity. Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes offers insights into how women's autonomy and personal decision-making capabilities are expressed via multiple formal and nonformal dispute-resolution mechanisms, and as part of their social and legal lived realities. It analyzes the specific ways in which both mediation and religious arbitration take shape in contemporary and comparative family law across jurisdictions. Demarcating lines between contemporary family mediation and new forms of religious arbitration, Bano illuminates the complexities of these processes across multiple national contexts.
 
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