The Strategies of Muslim Family Law Reform

Baby M: catalyst for family law reform?

Reform of the Law

slowly than medicine and this is not in keeping with knowledge about causation and treatment which is the fruit of research. It is ironic that the regulations governing certification still reflect a greater concern for the liberty and good treatment of the patient's body than of his mind, and in some cases they are apparently designed to prevent victimisation by unscrupulous doctors?an attitude...

the effect of explicit teaching of metacognitive vocabulary learning strategies on recall and retention of idioms

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Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh∗

Existing theoretical and empirical research on dowries has difficulty accounting for the large changes in dowry levels observed in many countries over the past few decades. To explain trends in dowry levels in Bangladesh, we draw attention to an institutional feature of marriage contracts previously ignored in the literature: the mehr or traditional Islamic brideprice, which functions as a pren...

Supplementary appendix to Muslim family law, prenuptial agreements and the emergence of dowry in Bangladesh

This is a companion paper to Ambrus, Field and Torrero (2009). We extend the theoretical analysis of a marriage market with prenuptial agreements to a dynamic setting, in which individuals can reenter the marriage market after failed marriages. We show that the qualitative conclusions of the static analysis remain valid in the dynamic framework. Additionally, we provide examples, both in the st...