Accommodating religious needs in relation to marriage: Flying kites and navigating state law and other forms of law -
1. Introduction – 2. Legal pluralism as a conceptual challenge: Flying kites – 3. Multi-legality and its challenges – 4. Does legal pluralism offer a way forward? – 5. Conflicting claims over Muslim law – 6. Pluralism and ‘White Tigers’ – 7. Constructing a pluralist model – 8. Practical application – 9. Conclusions.
The author
Professor of South Asian Laws, SOAS, University of London
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Paper for: Diritto & Religione. Prima giornata di studio “Edoardo Dieni”, Il riconoscimento civile dei matrimoni religiosi: conflitto di leggi o di culture?, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Como, 28-29 novembre 2008.