Essays about: "legal culture and living law."

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words legal culture and living law..

1. 1. Married in Spite of The Law: An Ethnographic Study on Early Marriage in Zaatari Refugee Camp

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

   Author : Itxaso Velasco Regulez; [2019]
   Keywords : Early marriage; Jordanian Law of Personal Status; adat; Zaatari refugee camp; socio-legal adaptation; legal pluralism; legal culture and living law.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Despite being generally forbidden by the Jordanian Law of Personal Status, early marriage among Syrian refugees in the camp of Zaatari is still common, and according to some sources, its incidence has increased during the past years. This practice in Zaatari is regulated by the Syrian adat, that at the same time coexists with Jordanian law and decision norms advocated by International NGOs; giving place to a situation of legal pluralism in the camp. READ MORE

3. 2. An ethnographic study of domestic violence and divorce in Uzbekistan: what is more important, to be free or to be alive?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Kerstin Martinez; [2017]
   Keywords : divorce; domestic violence; dominance theory; equality; ethnography; gender equality; hybrid society; legal culture; legal feminist theory; living law; mahalla; Uzbekistan; violence against women; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this paper has been to provide a socio-legal analysis of domestic violence and divorce in secular Uzbekistan. The legislation express that men and women are equal to the law, that any kind of discrimination is forbidden and judicial divorce is possible. READ MORE

4. 3. Nobody asks us! Muslim women's experiences and perspectives of multiculturalism, the legal system and the debate on veil in Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Syarta Bonnevier; [2016]
   Keywords : Discrimination; Distorted communication; Habermas: Theory of Communicative Action; Veil-ban; Multiculturalism; Legal system; Recognition; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Within the first decade of this millennium several Western European countries have prohibited Muslim veils in public spaces. Excluding the culture of Muslims or more specifically Islamic beliefs in a multicultural society, in which the hardest hit are Muslim veiled women, has resulted in the discourse of the ‘rise and fall of multiculturalism’. READ MORE

5. 4. Corruption in a Culture of Štela: Understanding Informal: Transactions in Bosnia and Hercegovina

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionen

   Author : Leila Farjani; [2016]
   Keywords : Bosnia; Corruption; Transparency International; Living Law: Legal Pluralism; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The focus of this thesis is to explore why petty corruption dominates and persists in Bosnian society despite the major anti-corruption efforts of Bosnian government and international organisations. By approaching corruption from a social-legal perspective, this thesis aims to explore the local experiences, social norms and morality of informal transactions in Bosnian society. READ MORE

6. 5. Healthcare Reform: A Microcosm and Exploration of New Public Management in China

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Baoyue Zhang; [2015]
   Keywords : New public management NPM ; public-private partnership PPP ; new institutional economics NIE ; cost efficiency; resource allocation.; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The NPM is considered as an efficacious way to improve effectiveness and efficiency in management control of public health for its market-driven and market-driving characteristics. Theoretically, it is a hybrid of economics and business management in public management. READ MORE