Putting Cyber Weddings and Aquatic Nuptials in their Wider Context

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To Be or Not To Be: Recognition of Same-sex Partnerships in Hong Kong

The primary aim of this article is to provide a background study and analysis of same-sex partnerships in the hope that it may assist the debate and contribute to policymaking. This article begins by looking at the events that led to the 1991 decriminalisation of homosexual conduct between consenting adults in private. This is followed by a summary and analysis of the gay and lesbian rights movement as a global force. It is argued that the recent success of gay and lesbian groups, especially in the liberal West, is closely related to a larger movement for equality and nondiscrimination. The author argues that the demands of same-sex couples in Hong Kong are also part of this wider movement for equality and non-discrimination and deserve to be debated and addressed without undue delay.published_or_final_versio

Recent developments in the divorce law of Hong Kong: towards minimal adjudication and consensual divorce

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Family law in Hong Kong

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The legal and cultural context of children's rights in Hong Kong

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An equal right to inherit? Women's land rights, customary law and constitutional reform in Tanzania

This article explores contemporary contestations surrounding women’s inheritance of land in Africa. Legal activism has gained momentum, both in agendas for law reform and in test case litigation, which reached United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in ES and SC v. United Republic of Tanzania. Comparing the approach of Tanzania to that of its neighbours, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, this article explores patterns of resistance and omission towards enshrining an equal right to inherit in land and succession laws. It identifies two main reasons: neoliberal drivers for land law reform of the 1990s and sociopolitical sensitivity surrounding inheritance of land. It argues that a progressive approach to constitutional and law reform on women’s land rights requires understanding of the realities of claims to family land based on kinship relations. It calls for a holistic approach to land, marriage and inheritance law reform underpinned with constitutional rights to equality and progressive interpretations of living customary law

Social and legal change in Kuria family relations

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