ACCOMMODATING RELIGIOUS LAW WITH A CIVIL LEGAL SYSTEM: LESSONS FROM THE JEWISH LAW EXPERIENCE IN FINANCIAL FAMILY MATTERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (03) ◽  
pp. 481-503
Author(s):  
Avishalom Westreich
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Religious Law

AbstractThe discussion of legal pluralism focuses on the coexistence of several legal systems, mainly religious and civil ones. But what happens when a process of assimilation—whether imposed or voluntary—characterizes the relationships between the systems? This article analyzes the fascinating process of assimilation of civil principles into religious law in the context of Jewish law and Israeli civil family law. Assimilation, as the article shows, is not the whole picture. The article reveals a corresponding (both open and implicit) struggle for the preservation of religious law principles despite the continuing efforts of civil law for their curtailment, or sometimes, elimination. The result, which is somewhat internally contradictory, suggests a normative pluralistic framework that enables both regimes—the civil and the religious—to preserve their core principles in family law matters.

scholarly journals MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW IN SOUTH AFRICA: “UNTIL TWO LEGAL SYSTEMS DO US PART OR MEET?”

Obiter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesahl Domingo
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Ideal Case ◽  
Legal Recognition ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Personal Law ◽  
Individual Human

South Africa is one of the most prominent examples of pluralism providing recognition to traditional customary and religious law. South Africa’s commitment to legal pluralism is an important development because it reflects not only constitutional dedication tomulticulturalism but also a political and functional need for incorporating traditional and religious legal systems. The legal recognition of Muslim Personal Law in South Africa provides an ideal case study on legal pluralism supported by a multicultural constitutional process. Over 15 years of democracy have passed and the draft Muslim Marriages Act has not yet been introduced into legislation. The issue of legal recognition of Muslim Personal Law in South Africa has highlighted the difficulties that arise when balancing the commitment to individual human rights and religious rights. This paper explores the question: What is the future of Muslim Personal Law in South Africa? Since the draft Muslim Marriages Act has not yet been enacted into legislation, it presents an opportunity to re-examine and rethink how to implement religious law effectively in a secular state. This is discussed in the paper by presentingvarious multicultural and pluralistic jurisdictional family law models, which look at the key relationship between civil and religious authorities.

scholarly journals The Transplant of Trusts in Different Legal Jurisdictions: The Example of China

Global Jurist ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Terranova
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Original Model ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Legal Institution ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Trust Law

AbstractLegal transplants are considered a significant factor in the evolution of legal systems. One example of transplant of a legal institution through its prestige is the diffusion of the trust from the English legal system to other common law systems and to many civil law countries. One of these is China that in 2001 enacted the Trust Law of the People’s Republic of China. This paper wants to analyse the trust under the Trust Law and to compare it with the original model in the English legal system, understanding how far or how close it is from the original one.

scholarly journals The Division of Jointly Acquired Property of Deceased Spouses in the Event of the Death of One of Them: The Legal Regulation and Law Enforcement Practice

Legal Concept ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Yanina Kail ◽  
◽  
Victoria Usanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Current System ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Scientific Cognition ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Joint Property

Introduction: the study of the division of jointly acquired property of spouses and inheritance of property has always been given special attention by the scientists and practitioners. Quite a lot of works are devoted to this area of legal relations. However, it is not so variable and depends on the intricacies of life that there are constantly many issues that require special research and improvement of the legal regulation. The division of jointly acquired property by the spouses at the dissolution of the marriage is regulated by the norms of family law, as well as civil law in the event of the death of one of the former spouses, who do not fully correspond to each other. In this regard, today citizens often face the problems of protecting their property rights. The purpose of the research: to reveal some aspects of the legal regulation and law enforcement practice of protecting the rights of former spouses in the division of jointly acquired property in the event of the death of one of them, and to offer suggestions to help improve the relevant rules. Methods: the methods of scientific cognition are applied together, among which the main ones are the formal-legal, system methods, analysis and synthesis. Results: it is proved that the current system of the legal regulation of division of joint property of the former spouses in the event of the death of one of them requires the improvement of the legal regulation, as laid down in the legislation, the protection of property rights is quite long and expensive, which leads to the futility of efforts. Conclusions: the law enforcement practice of protecting the property rights of former spouses in the division of jointly acquired property should be recognized as generally conforming to the established norms of law. However, the lack of the clear legal regulation of the criteria and conditions for the division of jointly acquired property in the event of opening of an inheritance after the former spouse before the expiration of the threeyear statute of limitations, leads to the situations where 2 spouses will claim the inheritance – the former and the present. This situation leads to costly conflicts that are resolved in court.

scholarly journals Transfer of Risk of Loss in Turkish Law and International Treaties

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Almıla Özkan ◽  
Ayşe Sena Aksakallı
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Vienna Convention ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Law System ◽  
Common Law System ◽  
The Way

The risk of loss refers to the value of the goods that were damaged or destroyed without responsibilities of any party. While the matter of risk of loss differs from legal systems to legal systems, it has been subject to international treaties as well. In Turkish legal system, the abrogated Code of Obligation and Turkish Code of Obligations have different features in terms of transfer of risk of loss. According to abrogated Code of Obligation, the buyer is responsible for the value of the damaged goods as soon as the parties sign the contract. In Turkish Code of Obligations, the seller bears the risk of loss until the delivery of goods or registration. Turkish Code of Obligation is compatible with civil law. And abrogated Code of Obligation is compatible with common law system. There are rules regarding transfer of risk of loss in many international treaties. By the way, it must be stated that rules of transfer of risk of loss in Vienna Convention are compatible with Turkish Code of Obligations.

scholarly journals Perspectives and obstacles of the shareholder activism implementation: A comparative analysis of civil and common law systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 520-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khurram Parvez Raja ◽  
Alex Kostyuk
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Shareholder Activism ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

The paper outlines shareholder activism development in common law and civil law countries and identifies features of these legal systems that create preconditions and obstacles for shareholder activism. Our findings show that tendencies of shareholder activism depend on the type of the legal system, but also vary within the countries that share the same legal system. Thus, we conclude that the type of legal system is not the chief determinant of shareholder activism. A comparative analysis of shareholder activism in Germany and Ukraine (civil law countries) and the USA and the UK (common law countries) shows that the system of domestic corporate regulation, development of the stock market, companies’ capitalization and corporate governance influence the development of shareholder activism in equal measure.

scholarly journals Dimensions of precedent: a methodology to understand the doctrine of precedent

Perspectivas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-107
Author(s):  
Florencia S. Ratti Mendaña ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Adequate Understanding

This article evidences multiple ways in which judicial precedent is used in different legal systems. It shows that: a) precedent is currently used, one way or another, in every legal system but its use differs in each legal system and frequently it is used differently even between courts of the same legal system; b) a comparative analysis under the methodology hereby proposed would provide useful tools in order to address how to “treat like cases alike”. The main aim of this research is to set the conceptual framework for an adequate understanding and study of the doctrine of precedent. To do this, some dimensions of the doctrine of precedent will be added to those enumerated by Michele Taruffo and analyzed not only theoretically, but also under concrete examples of how they work in different legal systems —both of common law and civil law.

scholarly journals The Legal Pluralism in Law Education in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Rahmat Bin Mohamad ◽  
I Wayan Rideng
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Legal Compliance ◽  
Normative Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

This paper aims to analyze the practice of legal pluralism in Indonesia. A decentralized approach policy enables the growth and the development of various legal systems. By the prevailing of the pluralism of legal system apparently also raises the problem in its application. But in reality, various living legal systems can co-exist. The method applied is based on normative study, with qualitative approach. The result shows that the legal system that pluralism is very influential on the development of education, including law education. Law education in Indonesia is also influenced by the history of Indonesia. The new pattern of law education in Indonesia can only lead people to an obedience and legal compliance. Legal education is not an independent thing, but it is related to social issues. So it has implications for the many violations of law and the emergence of criminal acts. This shows the level of legal awareness of the community is still low. Then it will also affect the legal culture and law enforcement in a country.  

Comparative Law and the Study of Mixed Legal Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 473-501
Author(s):  
Jacques Du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Comparative Analyses ◽  
The World ◽  
Mixed Nature ◽  
Key Questions

Legal systems generally are ‘mixed’ in the sense that they have been influenced by a variety of other systems. However, while some legal systems, for a period of time at least, reach a certain level of uniformity, the diversity or ‘mixedness’ of the origins of other systems is more pronounced. This chapter deals with the experiences of the latter systems, and especially with their relevance to the discipline of comparative law. The focus is first on the concept of a mixed legal system, as well as related concepts, such as legal pluralism and hybridity, that have gained prominence in comparative analyses. Thereafter key questions that arise from these analyses are then considered in detail. These questions include how the mixed nature of legal systems is to be dealt with in representations of legal diversity of the world, how mixed legal systems are formed, and what could be learned from their experiences.

Child Support for Muslim Children in Family Courts in Today’s Israel

Hawwa ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Moussa Abou Ramadan
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Child Support ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Court System ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Family Courts ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Muslim Children

AbstractThe dual legal system of religious and civil law in Israel and the existence of a religious court system alongside a civil one causes distortions in the implementation of the rights and duties of husbands and wives. Due to this duality, in practice, in Israel, there is neither religious law nor law based on equality. This hybrid legal system leads to the reinforcement of what I will call here “patriarchal liberalism,” which means that there is a development in a liberal direction alongside obstacles and barriers that prevent advancement to full equality between men and women. Although this legal hybridity leads to the introduction of liberal norms into the legal relations between men and women, it also preserves patriarchal features. This article focuses on child support allotted to Muslim children in family courts in Israel. Since 2001, both shariʿa courts and family courts may rule in matters of child support for Muslim children, which means that there is parallel jurisdiction between the Muslim religious law according to religious belonging of the parties involved in cases.

HAK WARIS ANAK PEREMPUAN TIONGHUA DALAM PRESFEKTIF HUKUM (STUDI DI KABUPATEN SEKADAU)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michell Eko Hardian
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Legal Pluralism ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Essential Difference ◽  
Inheritance Law ◽  
High Position ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
Long Time

The Tionghoa community is one ofLegislation of Civil Law (Burgelijk Wetboek), it is displaying the existence of legal pluralism in Indonesia.the societies that populated for a long time and it is almost evenly spread in Indonesia. In several case of Tionghoa communities especially in terms of inheritance, a Tionghoa customs is continued to be used which are intended to regulate the differences rghts of boys and girls. In Tionghoa culture, boys are at high position because they are the successors of the clan (clan), contrariwise in Legislation of Civil Law (KUH Perdata) the position of girls and boys are equal. The gap of this differences fascinates the author to apply a research that will be published as a journal with the identification of the problem: How is the inheritance rights of Tionghoa girls toward the inheritance distribution in a legal perspective.This research uses a sociological juridical approach as means of a qualitative method. It is intended to provide a detailed explanation of the phenomenon which difficult to convey in form of quantitative method, to describe the differences between inheritance law that applies to Tionghoa communities and the inheritance legal system according to theThe results of this research confirm an essential difference between the customs and habits of Tionghoa communities and the inheritance legal system according to the Legislation of Civil Law (Burgelijk Wetboek), namely the Tionghoa Indonesian community assign the son as a truly successors of the inheritance of their parents. Therefore, the position of sons is more higher than girls because of the inheritance of the clan. In other hand, the girl does not obtain rights to inherit because the girl will follow her husbands when married.In Legislation of Civil Law (The position of girls and boys are equals, because the Legislation of Civil Law especially adheres to an individual inheritance system, bilateral and parental. In addition to these, the Legislation of Civil Law also know the terms of absolute part of the inheritance (legitime portie), whereas according to customary law; the position of Chinese is different, where the position of boys is higher than girls, this is because boys will take a responsibility to carry the name of their clan (clan) endlessly to the next descendants.The author recommend suggestions consider with with today’s developments and to accomplish the demands of a sense of justice, it is better for girls inherit without being discriminated. Meanwhile, the customs and culture are entrenched. However, a compromise is the middle way as resolution. It is consider with the inheritance law of Indonesia occurs a legal pluralism that influenced by religion, ethnicity and customs, therefore customary laws that was born from the traditions of the Tionghoa community enable to be enforced.

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