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Family Law Reform in Morocco

open access: yesAl-Qadha : Jurnal Hukum Islam dan Perundang-Undangan, 2023
The research on family law reform in Morocco aims to analyze the changes in family law in Morocco after the reform in 2004. The study discusses child marriage and the impact of the reforms on society, particularly in relation to gender equality and legal protection for women and children.
Zulham Wahyudani   +3 more
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Lesser Than Equal?

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR), 2023
In India, Hindu family law is often touted as a progressive and gender-just law that ought to be emulated and extended to minority religious communities through a common civil code.
Saumya Uma
doaj   +1 more source

A Mediator Between Sharia and State Law: Aḥmad al-Khamlīshī’s Legal Thinking and Contribution to Reforms

open access: yesCumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2023
With the 2004 reforms on the Moroccan Personal Status Law, the Moroccan Family Code (Mudawwanah) is considered one of the most egalitarian codes in the Muslim World. The reforms was a product of long-lasting public debates for decades in Morocco.
Miyase Yavuz Altıntaş
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Family Law in the SOZ/GDR I: Stalinism

open access: yesPrávněhistorické studie, 2020
Family Law in the SOZ/GDR during the Stalinistic Period is characterized by a legislation that initially realizes Weimarian reform postulates, for example a new family procedural law or the law on women’s rights. Since 1952, the reforms follow the Soviet
Martin Löhnig
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Constituting Over Constitutions

open access: yesUniversity of Bologna Law Review, 2021
In philosophy, legal theory and law, the Grundnorm, or basic norm, is often assumed to be the constitution, or that which overrides other norms. That is incorrect. This paper argues that the grundnorm should be the norm which regulates human procreation.
Carter Dillard
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“Precocious girls” : age of consent, class and family in late nineteenth-century England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
A fixed legal age of consent is used to determine when a person has the capacity to consent to sex yet in the late Victorian period the idea became a vehicle through which to address varied social concerns, from child prostitution and child sexual abuse ...
Lammasniemi, Laura
core   +1 more source

Reforming Defences to Homicide in Victoria: Another Attempt to Address the Gender Question

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2017
In 2005 in the Australian state of Victoria, significant changes were made to the defences to homicide. These reforms were in response to long standing concerns about the gendered operation of provocation and self-defence by feminist researchers and ...
Bronwyn Naylor, Danielle Tyson
doaj   +1 more source

Enfranchised Minors: Women as People in the Middle East after the 2011 Arab Uprisings

open access: yesLaws, 2017
The civic status of female citizens in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is conceptualized as “enfranchised minorhood” which reflects the confined position of adult women as legal minors under the trusteeship of male kin in family law ...
Rania Maktabi
doaj   +1 more source

The legal position of women following the Family Law reforms

open access: yesFeminismo/s, 2006
This article seeks to present a brief history of the legal position of women within the field of Family Law. From this standpoint, the limitation of women’s autonomy compared to that of men, as established in our previous legislation, can clearly be ...
María Luisa Vallés Amores
doaj   +1 more source

The Facts About Applying: Health Care Coverage and the Affordable Care Act

open access: yesEDIS, 2013
President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010, putting in place a set of reforms to health coverage in the United States. For Americans who have health insurance, they do not have to change their current plan under the health ...
Meg McAlpine, Martie Gillen
doaj   +5 more sources

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