Construindo um novo léxico dos direitos humanos: convenção sobre os direitos das pessoas com deficiências

Publicado em português, espanhol e inglês.Título em espanhol: Construyendo un nuevo léxico de derechos humanos: la convención sobre los derechos de las personas con discapacidad. -- Título em inglês: Constructing a new human rights lexicon: convention on the rights of persons with disabilities.Examina a Convenção sobre os Direitos das Pessoas com deficiências, que é o primeiro instrumento de direitos humanos do milênio a entender como o discurso dos direitos das pessoas com deficiências tem sido alterado e a contribuir para a jurisprudência sobre direitos humanos. Isso ocorre porque a Convenção altera o léxico dos direitos das pessoas com deficiências e oferece um novo insight sobre o modo de resolver alguns dilemas perenes dos direitos humanos

Introduction : decolonisation of knowledge : whose responsibility?

Contributed papers presented at the Critical Legal Studies Conference held in September 2007, at Hyderabad, India.Introduction.Decolonisation of Knowledge: Whose Responsibility? / Archana Parashar / Amita Dhanda -- Ch. 1 Development and the Limits of State Politics: Rethinking Emancipatory Politics in Contemporary Africa / Michael Neocosmos -- Ch. 2 The Successful Failing of Legal Theory / Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos -- Ch. 3 Power and Responsibility: The Curse of Spider-Man / Francesco Dominello -- Ch. 4 International Laws and the Discontented: Westernisation, the Development and the Underdevelopment of International Laws / Gbenga Oduntan -- Ch. 5 The Female Diaspora: Interrogating the Female Trafficked Migrant / Sharron A. FitzGerald -- Ch. 6 Sexualised Economics: Divorce and the Division of Farming Property in Australia / Malcolm Voyce -- Ch. 7 Responsibility for Legal Knowledge / Archana Parashar -- Ch. 8 The Governance of Power: Taxing Choices / Radha Arun -- Contents note continued: Ch. 9 The Ability to Respond: Responsibility of Regulatory Institutions / Vijaya Nagarajan -- Ch. 10 The Power of One: The Law Teacher in the Academy / Amita Dhanda.293 page(s

Introduction

Family law is synonymous with religious personal laws in India. In the last 50 years we have not had a sustained discussion about what would consitute a 'just' family law. Most discussions on family-related matters have floundered on the claims of minority religious identity and the constraints of a secular state with repsect to religious autonomy. Therefore, family laws have a chequered history in granting even limited equality to women. This collection of essays is intended to start the process of generating ... a discourse

Redefining family law in India : essays in honour of B. Sivaramayya

This volume is a collection of articles by scholars across disciplines to create a discourse of family law independent of Religious Personal Law, whilst striving for fairness and justice to all. It demonstrates the artificiality of the public-private divide and seeks the systematic development of ideas for a fair and just family law in contemporary India. The book does not merely document the pathologies of power within the family but also makes proposals for remedying these inequities. It is not confined to considering what changes need to be inducted into existing family law to make it more just, but also strategises on the means and methods of effecting the change. It lifts the familial veil and scrutinises the status, rights and disabilities of some of the subordinated members of the family. The volume is an invitation to redefine family law with the twin tools of reflection and responsibility.1. Inheriting Modernity: Religious Intolerance in 1 -- Christianity, Islam and Hinduism -- M. Vasudevacharya -- 2. Wives and Whores: The Regulation of the Economies in 28 -- Sexual Labour -- Prabha Kotiswaran -- 3. Saving Custom or Promoting Incest? Post-independence 54 -- Marriage Law and Dravidian Marriage Practices -- Patricia Uberoi -- 4. A Psychosocial Critique of the Law of Adoption in India 86 -- Amita Dhanda -- 5. Paternalistic Law, Autonomous Child and the 111 -- Responsible Judges -- Archana Parashar -- 6. Dysphoric Bodies of Law 141 -- Damini Bhalla and Supriya Sankaran -- 7. Sexuality, Freedom and the Law 178 -- S.P. Sathe -- 8, Divorce at the Wife's Initiative in Muslim Personal Law: 200 -- What are the Options and What are Their Implications -- for Women's Welfare? -- Sylvia Vatuk -- 9. Hindu Conjugality: Transition from Sacrament to 236 -- Contractual Obligations -- Flavia Agnes -- 10. Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for 258 -- Women and Children -- Kamala Sankaran -- 11. Succession Laws and Gender Justice 282 -- Poonam Pradhan Saxena -- 12. 'Bargaining', Gender Equality and Legal Change: 306 -- The Case of India's Inheritance Laws -- Bina Agarwal.374 page(s