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Auteure: Rouchdi Tizgui

Nombre de pages: 192

Y a-t-il une vie après la mort ? Cette question existentielle, qui vient parfois nous tarauder l’esprit, devrait plutôt concerner ceux qui sont confrontés à l’épreuve insurmontable, celle de vivre la mort de l’être aimé et de devoir, malgré tout, continuer à vivre. Amine a tout pour exister béat, mais un évènement dramatique viendra chambarder le cours de sa destinée. Il est condamné à perdre l’amour de sa vie qui souffre d’un cancer en phase terminale. Pourra-t-il porter seul sa quête de sens face à une mort subite et recouvrer sa propre vie dans un monde où l’être cher n’existe plus ? Comment devra-t-il survivre et voir s’éployer en lui ce châtiment amer sans qu’il parvienne à faire son deuil ?

La magie des rencontres qui sauvent

Auteure: Noucia Adams

Nombre de pages: 400

« Il arrive parfois que la vie soit aussi incroyable que la fiction. » Nantes, 13 septembre 2019 Trois femmes se rencontrent lors d’une fusillade. Tamaya, perfectionniste et très attachée à ses racines comoriennes, a un projet de vie idéal. Mais tout vole en éclats lors de son mariage au pays. Rozenn est une danseuse pétillante au caractère excessif. Hantée par son passé, elle se réfugie dans une relation exclusive avec sa sœur et refuse de s’attacher aux autres. Jade, Réunionnaise au charme fou et mère célibataire, quitte son île pour fuir Dominique et refaire sa vie, mais peine à avancer. Trois parcours. Une amitié exceptionnelle. La vie s’accélère, entre révélations et rebondissements, elles se réinventent. Mais le destin semble suivre un plan qui les conduira bien plus loin qu’elles ne pourraient l’imaginer.

La Horde enracinée

Auteure: Alain De Bures

Nombre de pages: 632

Saga de la famille d'Agholi. La vie de Turkmènes d'Iran, et plus particulièrement de la famille d'Agholi, sédentarisés mais toujours nomades dans l'âme. Un témoignage passionnant. Plongez dans un récit épique, une évocation haute en couleurs, et découvrez un témoignage qui se lit comme un roman et offre un voyage dans un monde aujourd'hui inaccessible. EXTRAIT Il arrive cependant qu’il refuse de soigner certains déments. Non qu’il les craigne ‒ il sait parfaitement maîtriser les furieux et possède à cet effet un assez joli assortiment de menottes, de chaînes et de cadenas ‒ mais il sait très bien que la folie peut avoir des causes bien mystérieuses et qu’il serait sacrilège de vouloir guérir certains cas dont il soupçonne l’origine divine. Par contre il n’hésite jamais à croiser le fer avec Iblis2 et les divers cheïtans de sa suite habituelle quand ils se sont emparés d’un malheureux. Il permet volontiers qu’on assiste aux séances d’exorcisme. Mais il exige des spectateurs qu’ils se tiennent immobiles et surtout silencieux. Après l’avoir installé sur un espace délimité par un cercle tracé du bout d’un bâton, Raïdjabali se...

CinémAction

Nombre de pages: 236

Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy

Auteure: Harry Daniels , Hugh Lauder , Jill Porter

Nombre de pages: 322

Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy focuses on what schools are for and what should be taught in them, how learning is possible across boundaries, and issues of diversity and equity. Policies and practices relating to schools are also considered. Within this volume, internationally renowned contributors address a number of fundamental questions designed to take the reader to the heart of current debates around curriculum, knowledge transfer, equity and social justice, and system reform, such as: What are schools and what are they for? What knowledge should schools teach? How are learners different from each other and how are groups of learners different from one another, in terms of social class, gender, ethnicity, and disability? What influence does educational policy have on improving schools? What influence does research have on our understanding of education and schooling? To encourage reflection, many of the chapters also include questions for debate and a guide to further reading. Read alongside its companion volume, Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning, readers will be encouraged to consider and think about on some of the key issues facing education and...

Islamic Law in Past and Present

Auteure: Mathias Rohe

Nombre de pages: 676

Islamic Law in Past and Present, written by the lawyer and Islamicist Mathias Rohe, is the first comprehensive study for decades on Islamic law, legal theory, reform mechanisms and the application of Islamic law in Islamic countries and the Muslim diaspora. It provides information based on an abundance of Oriental and Western sources regarding family and inheritance law, contract and economic law, penal law, constitutional, administrative and international law. The present situation and ‘law in action’ are highlighted particularly. This includes examples collected during field studies on the application of Islamic law in India, Canada and Germany.

Changing God's Law

Auteure: Nadjma Yassari

Nombre de pages: 358

This volume identifies and elaborates on the significance and functions of the various actors involved in the development of family law in the Middle East. Besides the importance of family law regulations for each individual, family law has become the battleground of political and social contestation. Divided into four parts, the collection presents a general overview and analysis of the development of family law in the region and provides insights into the broader context of family law reform, before offering examples of legal development realised by codification drawn from a selection of Gulf states, Iran, and Egypt. It then goes on to present a thorough analysis of the role of the judiciary in the process of lawmaking, before discussing ways the parties themselves may have shaped and do shape the law. Including contributions from leading authors of Middle Eastern law, this timely volume brings together many isolated aspects of legal development and offers a comprehensive picture on this topical subject. It will be of interest to scholars and academics of family law and religion.

Pleure et chante mon pays

Auteure: Monique-yakout Khentache

Nombre de pages: 277

Dans ce livre, je vous emmène à travers les péripéties de l’Algérie, dans mon village kabyle avec ses traditions, ses codes et son humour dans une famille traditionnelle. Ma mère avec laquelle j’étais très liée m’a appris à aimer Dieu et m’a transmis oralement dès mon plus jeune âge toutes les valeurs de notre identité et celles de l’Islam. Témoin de la guerre d’Algérie et du terrorisme, j’ai grandi dans une société où l’émancipation de la femme n’était qu’un vain mot. Le besoin de liberté était pourtant viscéralement accroché à moi. Il m’a donc fallu mener un dur combat pour accéder à l’instruction et à la liberté. Je voulais être une femme libre délivrée de toute tutelle. Ma mère m’encourageait sans cesse, me prodiguant moult conseils avisés. Dotée d’un don mystique lui donnant de ressentir l’avenir, elle me confiait régulièrement des prophéties m’éclairant sur mon devenir. Ma vie a ainsi été parsemée de signes, de miracles, de phénomènes surnaturels. Nous gardions toutes deux ces trésors dans le secret de notre cœur jusqu’à aujourd’hui. Après une rencontre déterminante dans mon enfance, le...

L’Oiseau du bonheur

Auteure: Samir Abdul Jabbar Saed

Nombre de pages: 305

Dans l’Irak des années soixante, Saad vit dans une petite maison aux portes du désert. Les croyances et superstitions des parents exacerbent la pauvreté de la famille. Pour fuir la violence du père et celle des institutions, Saad se réfugie dans le désert ou sur le toit de la maison qui deviennent ainsi des terrains de jeux et d’évasion. Tombé amoureux d’Annie Girardot après en avoir aperçu une photo en couverture d’un magazine, Saad se promet d’aller un jour à Paris pour épouser la star du cinéma français. Un événement va lui permettre d’accomplir une partie de son rêve. Un soir, son père découvre à la télévision une annonce de l’Institut des Beaux-Arts de Bagdad faisant état d’un concours d’entrée pour devenir artiste. La vie de Saad va en être bouleversée. Entre saga familiale et fresque sociale, ce roman fait revivre à travers une famille pauvre de Kerbala les grands événements de l’époque et la montée progressive de Saddam Hussein au pouvoir. Une histoire qui vous fait rire, pleurer et espérer, et vous embarque dans un tourbillon d’espoir et de liberté.

Das islamische Recht

Auteure: Mathias Rohe

Nombre de pages: 481

Das islamische Recht ist im Westen durch spektakuläre Todesurteile und drakonische Körperstrafen in Verruf geraten, ansonsten aber weitgehend unbekannt. Was ist die Scharia? Was ist eine Fatwa? Kann es im Islam eine Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter geben? Diese und andere Fragen behandelt Mathias Rohe in der ersten umfassenden Darstellung des islamischen Rechts seit Jahrzehnten. Erstmals beschreibt in diesem Buch ein islamwissenschaftlich geschulter Jurist Entstehung, Entwicklung und gegenwärtige Ausformung des islamischen Rechts. Mathias Rohe erläutert die wichtigsten islamischem Rechtsquellen und Rechtsfindungsmethoden und schildert die Regelungsbereiche des klassischen islamischen Rechts: Ehe- und Familienrecht, Erbrecht, Vertrags- und Wirtschaftsrecht, Gesellschaftsrecht, Eigentumsrecht, Strafrecht, Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht, Fremden- und Völkerrecht. Dabei kommen auch grundlegende Unterschiede zwischen Sunniten, Schiiten und anderen Richtungen zur Sprache. Sein besonderes Augenmerk gilt den Regelungen für Muslime in einer nichtislamischen Umgebung, vor allem in Deutschland. Ein Ausblick auf Perspektiven des islamischen Rechts in einer globalisierten Welt...

N'Djamena bi-hebdo

Nombre de pages: 318

Nadjma

Auteure: Yacine Kateb

Nombre de pages: 255

Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children

Auteure: Nadjma Yassari , Lena-maria Möller , Marie-claude Najm

Nombre de pages: 417

This book contains selected contributions presented during the workshop “Establishing Filiation: Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law?”, which was convened in Beirut, Lebanon in November 2017. Filiation is a multifaceted concept in Muslim jurisdictions. Beyond its legal aspect, it encompasses the notion of inclusion and belonging, thereby holding significant social implications. Being the child of someone, carrying one’s father’s name, and inheriting from both parents form important pillars of personal identity. This volume explores filiation (nasab) and alternative forms of a full parent-child relationship in Muslim jurisdictions. Eleven country reports ranging from Morocco to Malaysia examine how maternal and paternal filiation is established – be it by operation of the law, by the parties’ exercise of autonomy, such as acknowledgement, or by scientific means, DNA testing inparticular – and how lawmakers, courts, and society at large view and treat children who fall outside those legal structures, especially children born out of wedlock or under dubious circumstances. In a second step, alternative care schemes in place for the ...

Die Stellung der Frau in der afghanischen Verfassungsordnung im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen islamischem Recht und Völkerrecht - unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Scheidungsrechts

Auteure: Mina Aryobsei

Nombre de pages: 397

After the fall of the Taliban, the new Afghan constitution of 2004 marks a fundamental beginning for the status of women – at least from a normative perspective. Art. 22 of the Afghan constitution contains: “The citizens of Afghanistan, man and woman, have equal rights and duties before the law.” According to Art. 7 of the constitution the state shall observe i. a. the international treaties to which Afghanistan has joined. This also covers the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. At the same time, Art. 3 of the constitution provides that no law should contravene the tenets and provisions of the holy religion of Islam in Afghanistan. But how do these different sources of law interact in conflicting legal fields? There are no exiting provisions of the constitution explicitly offering an answer to this problem. This work focuses on the solution of this question regarding the status of women, especially in the law of divorce.

Child Custody in Islamic Law

Auteure: Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

Nombre de pages: 281

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law

Auteure: Anver M. Emon

Nombre de pages: 1009

This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the contemporary study of Islamic law and a critical analysis of its deficiencies. Written by outstanding senior and emerging scholars in their fields, it offers an innovative historiographical examination of the field of Islamic law and an ideal introduction to key personalities and concepts. While capturing the state of contemporary Islamic legal studies by chronicling how far the field has come, the Handbook also explains why certain debates recur and indicates fundamental gaps in our knowledge. Each chapter presents bold new avenues for research and will help readers appreciate the contested nature of key concepts and topics in Islamic law. This Handbook will be a major reference work for scholars and students of Islam and Islamic law for years to come.

Ausländisches Privat- und Privatverfahrensrecht in deutscher Sprache

Auteure: Christian Von Bar

Nombre de pages: 981

Find all you need to know on foreign private and private procedural law systematically classified in one book: Which literature, for instance, exists in German language on Canadian law of successions, on Chinese company law, and on Qatari labour law? The volume “Foreign Private Law and Private Procedural Law in German Language” provides - systematically arranged according to countries and fields of law – information about the existing literature, expert opinion and jurisdiction from 1990 until now regarding all areas of private law. Thus, as a legal professional being concerned with mandates within an international context you will certainly not go without this unique volume: It includes about 43,000 references and sources with respect to 268 different jurisdictions – from Afghanistan to Vietnam. The book is available as printed and electronic version. Take now advantage from a regular and automatic update of the volume as a subscription edition and ensure you have access to the updated content. Subscribe to the edition today at a price of 149 € per year via [email protected], at the publisher via [email protected] or in your bookshop.

Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries

Auteure: Nadjma Yassari , Lena-maria Möller , Imen Gallala-arndt

Nombre de pages: 366

This book is the first analysis of parental care regimes in Muslim jurisdictions, both in a comparative and country-specific sense. It contains the proceedings of a workshop on Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries that the Max Planck Research Group “Changes in God’s Law: An Inner-Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law” hosted in Rabat, Morocco in April 2015. This workshop saw a total of 15 country reports presented on questions of custody, guardianship and their development within different Muslim jurisdictions (ranging from Indonesia to Morocco), a number of which are included in full in the book. Each of these country reports contains a historical perspective on the evolution of domestic rules regarding custody and guardianship, and on the introduction and development of the notion of the best interests of the child. Most importantly, the prevailing legal norms, both substantive and procedural, are explored and particular attention is given to legal practice and the role of the judiciary. In addition to a selection of country reports from the workshop, the volume includes two comparative analyses on questions of parental care in...

Tusind og én nat. Bind 4

Auteure: Ingen Forfatter

Nombre de pages: 944

"Tusind og én nat" er et hovedværk i verdenslitteraturen; en storslået samling af fortællinger fortalt med livet som indsats. Den smukke Shahrazad gifter sig med sultanen Shahriyar og må i en evigt genkomne bryllupsnat fortælle historier, i håbet om at han vil skåne hendes liv."Tusind og én nat" er et skatkammer af eventyr og sagn beboet af kendinge som Aladdin, Ali Baba og Sindbad Søfareren, men også af djinner og ifritter, tiggere og pukkelryggede, hyrder og købmænd, elskende og fjender, vesirer og kaliffer.Ellen Wulffs oversættelse fra arabisk er den første komplette og uforkortede danske oversættelse – og den første i verden, som er oversat i de oprindelige versemål.Bind 4 indeholder: Historien om Sindbad Søfareren Historien om kobberbyen Historien om kvindelist Historien om Djawdar og hans brødre Historien om Adj¯ib og Ghar¯ib Historien om Utba og Rayya Historien om Hind og al-Hadjadjadj Historien om Khuzayma ibn Bishr og Ikrima al-Fayyad Historien om Yunus al-Kal¯id ibn Sahl Historien om Harun al-Rash¯id og beduinpigen Historien om al-Asma'i og de tre piger fra Basra Historien om Ibrah¯im al-Mawsili og Ibl¯is Historien om de to elskende fra...

Afghanisches Eherecht

Auteure: Kabeh Rastin-tehrani

Nombre de pages: 267

Das materialreiche informative Werk stellt nach einer Schilderung der historischen Entwicklung des afghanischen Familienrechts eingehend die ehe- und scheidungsrechtlichen Regelungen des weiterhin geltenden afghanischen Zivilgesetzbuch von 1977 vor. Dabei wird der Blick auch stets auf die Hintergründe der Regelungen und ihre Umsetzung in der Praxis geworfen. Mit der Darstellung abweichender Gestaltungen in dem 2009 erlassenen Personalstatutgesetz der Schiiten wird die damit eingetretene religiöse Rechtsspaltung verdeutlicht. Rechtsvergleichende Hinweise beziehen die Eherechte anderer Staaten mit islamischer Rechtsordnung in die Betrachtung ein.

Babel

Auteure: Jan De Leeuw

Nombre de pages: 414

Alice Babel ist das reichste Mädchen der Erde. Von allem Luxus umgeben, aber isoliert und nach einem Terroranschlag gelähmt, lebt sie im obersten Stockwerk des weltweit höchsten Gebäudes und blickt auf den riesigen Stadtdschungel tief unter ihr, in dem die Menschen wie Ameisen herumwuseln. Da taucht plötzlich die undurchschaubare gleichaltrige Naomi bei ihr auf und bringt neues Leben mit sich – aber auch neue Gefahren ... Können sich die beiden in einer rätselhaften Welt von silbernen Schlangen, Tarotkarten, verlorenen Existenzen und religiösen Fanatikern nahekommen? Der preisgekrönte Jugendbuchautor Jan de Leeuw zeichnet in "Babel" die Zerrissenheit und Vielstimmigkeit unserer modernen Welt nach – ein atemberaubender, symbolisch aufgeladener Roman von Macht und Hybris, Unterdrückung und Verrat und der zarten Suche nach Freundschaft.

Sachrechtsvergleichung im Internationalen Privatrecht

Auteure: Melanie Manow

Nombre de pages: 239

Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East

Auteure: Suad Joseph , Zeina Zaatari

Nombre de pages: 886

The Routledge Handbook on Women in the Middle East provides an overview of the key historical, social, economic, political, religious, and cultural issues which have shaped the conditions and status of women in the region. The book is divided into eleven thematic sections, providing a comprehensive guide to understanding the current and historical contexts of women in the Middle East, each giving ground-breaking insights into various aspects of women’s movements: The importance of historical context, including pre-Islamic through post-colonial histories The importance of politics and the state in understanding women in the ME Women’s roles in political and social movements The impacts of the formal and informal economies and education on women of the region Women’s spaces and the creation of publics and counterpublics The effects of war, displacement, and other forms of gendered violence Women, family, and the state Discourses and practices of religion Women and health practices Bodies and sexualities Women and sites of cultural production A unique overview of cutting-edge research in the key arenas of pre-Islamic to post-colonial histories, this Handbook will affect the way ...

Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions

Auteure: Susan Petrilli , Meng Ji

Nombre de pages: 367

This edited volume explores emotion and its translations through the global world from a variety of different perspectives, as a personal, socio- cultural, ideological, ethical and political, even business investment in the latest phases of globalisation. Emotions are powerful in engaging or disengaging individuals, communities, the masses, peoples and nations with distinct linguistic and cultural backgrounds for good, but also for evil. All depends on how emotions are interpreted, that is, translated in “words” or in “facts”, in any case in “signs”. Semiotic reflection on emotions and their interpretation/translation is thus of essential importance. An adequate understanding of emotional phenomena and their complexities calls for different views which together reveal and illustrate inconsistencies in our modern life. The contributors argue that an investigation of types of emotional translation – linguistic and non- linguistic, audio-visual, theatrical, literary, racial, legal, architectural, political, and so forth – can contribute to a better understanding of emotions and how they are exploited to engender injustice, unfairness, absurdity in contemporary life....

The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Auteure: Javaid Rehman , Ayesha Shahid , Steve Foster

Nombre de pages: 417

The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region. The focused theme of Volume 6 is Essays in Honour of Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali.

Comparative Succession Law

Auteure: Kenneth G C Reid , Marius J De Waal , Reinhard Zimmermann

Nombre de pages: 833

This third volume in a series on Comparative Succession Law concerns the entitlement of family members to override the provisions of a deceased person's will to obtain money or assets (or more money or assets) from the person's estate. Some countries, notably those in the civil law tradition (such as France or Germany), confer a pre-ordained share of the deceased's estate or of its value on certain members of the deceased's family, and especially on the deceased's children and spouse. Other countries, notably those in the common law tradition (such as England, Canada, or Australia), leave the matter to the discretion of the court, the amount awarded depending primarily on financial need. Whichever form it takes, mandatory family provision is both a protection against disinheritance and also, therefore, a restriction on testamentary freedom. The volume focuses on Europe and on countries influenced by the European experience. In addition to detailed treatment of the law in Austria, England and Wales, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Scotland, and Spain, the book also has chapters on Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, the United States, Canada,...

Corpus Juris of Islamic International Criminal Justice

Auteure: Farhad Malekian

Nombre de pages: 770

This pioneering scholarly oeuvre evaluates the major comparative philosophy of Islamic international criminal justice. It represents an in-depth analysis of the necessities of creating an Islamic international criminal court, its possible jurisdiction, proceedings, judgments, and sanctions. It implies a court functioning under the legal personality of the International Criminal Court, with comparative international criminal lawyers with basic knowledge of Shariah contributing to the prevention of crimes and impunity at an international level. The morality and philosophy of Islamic justice are highly relevant with reference to the atrocities committed explicitly or implicitly under the pretext of Islamic rules by superiors, groups and governments. The volume focuses on substantive criminal law and three methods of the criminal procedure, namely the inquisitorial, adversarial, and adquisitorial. The first two constitute the corpus juris of civil and common law systems. The third term presents a hybrid of the first two methods. The intention is to enhance the scope of each method of the criminal procedure comprehensively. The volume examines their variations and effects on a shared...

Children in Migration and International Family Law

Auteure: Stefan Arnold , Bettina Heiderhoff

Nombre de pages: 315

This open access book offers readers a better understanding of the legal situation of children and families migrating to the EU. Shedding light on the legal, practical, and political difficulties at the intersection of international family law and migration law, it demonstrates that enhanced coordination between these policy areas is crucial to improving the legal situation of families on the move. It not only raises awareness of these “interface” issues and the need for stakeholders in migration law and international family law to collaborate closely, but also identifies deficits in the statutory framework and suggests possible remedies in the form of interpretation and regulatory measures. The book is part of the EU co-financed FAMIMOVE project and includes contributions from international experts, who cover topics such as guardianship, early marriage, age assessment, and kafala from a truly European perspective. The authors’ approach involves a rigorous analysis of the relevant statutory framework, case law, and academic literature, with particular attention given to the best interest of the child in all its facets. The book examines how this principle can be more...

Reforming Family Law

Auteure: Dörthe Engelcke

Nombre de pages: 287

Implementation of Islamic family law varies widely across North Africa and the Middle East, here Dörthe Engelcke explores the reasons for this.

Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriage

Auteure: Ziba Mir-hosseini , Mulki Al-sharmani , Jana Rumminger , Sarah Marsso

Nombre de pages: 471

The model of marriage constructed in classical Islamic jurisprudence rests on patriarchal ethics that privilege men. This worldview persists in gender norms and family laws in many Muslim contexts, despite reforms introduced over the past few decades. In this volume, a diverse group of scholars explore how egalitarian marital relations can be supported from within Islamic tradition. Brought together by the Musawah movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family, they examine ethics and laws related to marriage and gender relations from the perspective of the Qur’an, Sunna, Muslim legal tradition, historical practices and contemporary law reform processes. Collectively they conceptualize how Muslim marriages can be grounded in equality, mutual well-being and the core Qur’anic principles of ‘adl (justice) and ihsan (goodness and beauty).

Normativity and Diversity in Family Law

Auteure: Nadjma Yassari , Marie-claire Foblets

Nombre de pages: 375

With regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual orientation, as well as various other “claims” that are not officially recognized in state law, in 15 jurisdictions around the world. The country reports seek to determine whether these claims represent a challenge to family law as conceived by the state, and if so, how these challenges are being managed. The focus lies on the interaction between (i) claims and traditions raising minority-related and diversity-related issues and (ii) the state as the addressee of these demands for accommodation. The reports identify specific instances and situations that have proven (and in many cases still are) particularly difficult to resolve. They force decision-makers to engage in a delicate balancing act between different, often clashing interests.

Research Handbook on International Child Abduction

Auteure: Marilyn Freeman , Nicola Taylor

Nombre de pages: 487

With a focus on the 1980 Hague Convention, this cutting-edge Research Handbook provides a holistic overview of the law on international child abduction from prevention, through voluntary agreements and Convention proceedings, to post-return and aftercare issues.

Religion and International Law

Auteure: Robert Uerpmann-wittzack , Evelyne Lagrange , Stefan Oeter

Nombre de pages: 397

Growing religious antagonisms are challenging the ultimate goal of ‘living together’ in peaceful societies. Living together explores international law responses, beginning with their historic roots, before the perspective shifts to the role of religious institutions and religious law. Contributions of different human rights bodies are analyzed, before further sections deal with the international protection of religion, the relationship between religious beliefs and freedom of expression, and the roles of other individual rights. Religion and International Law originates from the long-standing cooperation between the German and the French Societies of International Law, thus bringing together the traditions of French laicism and a cooperative German approach. Experts from Austria, Italy, Poland, Portugal and the UK complement the pan-European perspective.

Comparative Succession Law

Auteure: Kenneth Reid , Marius De Waal , Reinhard Zimmermann

Nombre de pages: 680

Intestate Succession is the second volume in the Comparative Succession Law series which examines the principles of succession law from a comparative and historical perspective. This volume discusses the rules which apply where a person dies either without leaving a valid will, or leaving a will which fails to dispose of all of the person's assets. Among the questions considered are the following: What is the nature of the rules for the disposal of the deceased's assets? Are they mechanical or is there an element of discretion? Are particular types of property dealt with in particular ways? Is there entitlement to individual assets (as opposed to money)? Do the rules operate in a parentelic system or a system of some other kind? Are spouses treated more favourably than children? What provision is made for extra-marital children, for adopted children, for step-children? Does cohabitation give rise to entitlement? How are same-sex couples treated? Broader questions also arise of a historical and comparative nature. Where, for example, do the rules in intestate succession come from in particular legal systems? Have they been influenced by the rules in other countries? How are the...

Inheritance Law - Challenges and Reform

Auteure: Torstein Frantzen

Nombre de pages: 109

Hauptbeschreibung In 2011 the Norwegian government appointed a Committee to prepare a proposal for a new inheritance act to replace the inheritance act of 1972. A German-Norwegian seminar on inheritance law took place in Bergen 2012 with a special attention to the ongoing reform of Norwegian inheritance law. The topics of the seminar were the protection of children and the surviving partner - both spouse and cohabitant. The seminar included presentations from scholars from both countries, each presented from a Norwegian and a German perspective. Several lectures also include a.

The Elgar Companion to the Hague Conference on Private International Law

Auteure: Thomas John , Rishi Gulati , Ben Koehler

Nombre de pages: 539

This comprehensive Companion is a unique guide to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). Written by international experts who have all directly or indirectly contributed to the work of the HCCH, this Companion is a critical assessment of, and reflection on, past and possible future contributions of the HCCH to the further development and unification of private international law.

Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law

Auteure: Chris Ashford , Alexander Maine

Nombre de pages: 547

This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices.

Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia

Auteure: Dominik Krell

Nombre de pages: 237

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with leading members of the Saudi judiciary, seldom-seen legal literature and court judgments, the author addresses two main questions: First, what is the Saudi jurists’ understanding of an Islamic judiciary? And second, how is this understanding reflected in the Saudi legal system, its laws, its institutions, and court practices?

Comparative Law

Auteure: Uwe Kischel

Nombre de pages: 1099

Uwe Kischel's comprehensive treatise on comparative law offers a critical introduction to the central tenets of comparative legal scholarship. The first part of the book is dedicated to general aspects of comparative law. The controversial question of methods, in particular, is addressed by explaining and discussing different approaches, and by developing a contextual approach that seeks to engage with real-world issues and takes a practical perspective on contemporary comparative legal scholarship. The second part of the book offers a detailed treatment of the major legal contexts across the globe, including common law, civil law systems (based on Germany and France, and extended to Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Latin America, among others), the African context (with an emphasis on customary law), different contexts in Asia, Islamic law and law in Islamic countries (plus a brief treatment of Jewish law and canon law), and transnational contexts (public international law, European Union law, and lex mercatoria). The book offers a coherent treatment of global legal systems that aims not only to describe their varying norms and legal institutions but to propose a better way of...