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Child Marriage, Rights and Choice
This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage. In international campaigns against child marriage, there is a puzzle of agency: While international human rights institutions celebrate girls’ exercise of their agency not to marry, they do not recognize their agency to marry. Child marriage, usually defined as ‘any formal marriage or informal union where one or both of the parties are under 18 years of age’, is normally considered as forced – which is to say that it is assumed that are not capable of consenting to marriage. This book, however, re-examines this assumption, through a detailed socio-legal examination of child marriage in Indonesia. Eliciting the mul...
Marrying Young in Indonesia
On proverty, teen pregnancy, courtship violence, and customs lead to teenage marriage in Indonesia.
Marriage, Gender and Islam in Indonesia
This book explores how women deal with the realm of marriage in Lombok, eastern Indonesia. It draws on women’s narratives of their marital trajectories, recounting their stories of courtship, marital discord, and experiences of divorce, remarriage and polygamy.
The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia
Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.
The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2020
This yearbook is a compilation of thematically arranged essays that critically analyse emerging developments, issues, and perspectives in the field of comparative law. It comprises three parts wherein the first part focuses on public law and its related issues, the second part engages with issues in the field of private law, and the third part discusses general themes in comparative law. The yearbook includes papers on comparative study between universalism and Asian exceptionalism under human rights perspective, reclaiming the German concept of the rule of law “Rechtsstaat”, the Guarantee Clause in global constitutionalism, administrative justice, constitution and culture, and the categ...
Children’s Rights and Children’s Development: An Integrated Approach
"This book is a novel, ground-breaking volume bringing together leading scholars of children's rights and child development to explore the connections between the two fields. The book seeks to forge opportunities to deepen understanding about children's rights in light of the scientific research on child development to inform fresh perspectives on research, law, and policy affecting children"--
The Behavioral Code
An American Psychology-Law Society’s Lawrence S. Wrightsman Book Award Winner A 2022 PROSE Award finalist in Legal Studies and Criminology A 2022 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award Finalist A Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Book of 2021 Freakonomics for the law—how applying behavioral science to the law can fundamentally change and explain misbehavior Why do most Americans wear seatbelts but continue to speed even though speeding fines are higher? Why could park rangers reduce theft by removing “no stealing” signs? Why was a man who stole 3 golf clubs sentenced to 25 years in prison? Some laws radically change behavior whereas others are consistently ignored and routinely b...
Aligning Religious Law and State Law
In Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java, Muhammad Latif Fauzi investigates the extent to which the Indonesian state has regulated Muslim marriage, how a local community in Pasuruan, East Java practices and negotiates the regulation and how local officials deal with their practices. Instead of reforming the Marriage Law which would only stir up controversies, the Indonesian government has used a citizens’ rights approach to control marriage and to guide people towards compliance with the state legal framework. In everyday practice of marriage bureaucracy, the state agency in charge of Muslim marriage registration needs to maintain it...
The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology
Represents a comprehensive and interdisciplinary treatment to the field of law and anthropology, Decentres the standard Anglo-Euro-centric bias that prevails in both law and anthropology, Gives unique perspectives on issues of contemporary relevance, Provides the historical background but focuses on the future of the field Book jacket.
Human Rights Futures
With authoritarian states and global culture wars threatening human rights, this volume weighs hopes the for effective human rights advocacy.
