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Islamic law
* Some Islamic laws governing women's lives are discriminatory.
* aims for a happy marriage and so allowances have been made for known human tendencies.
* allows men to have up to four wives
  - the marriage of girls as soon as they can conceive
* decrees punishment by amputation, public stoning and execution.
* encourages men to have more than one wife.
* favors mediation to justice rendered by a judge.
* governs the Muslim community.
* is affirmed as rational law
  - controlled, ruled and regulated by the Islamic religion
  - followed in affairs involving human relations
  - probably the most widely practiced theocratic legal system
  - supposed to serve the Muslim society
* is the basis of the constitution and there is no freedom of religion
  - law of justice
  - very strict regarding the necessity of having the woman's consent for marriage
  - well-defined through a tradition of jurisprudence
* makes no distinction between children and parents.
* permits polygamy, and many chiefs and village heads have more than one wife.
* prohibits investing money in alcohol, tobacco, gambling and pork producers.
* requires men and women to be separated in the prayer hall
  - strict food preparation standards
  - the consent of both the parties before marriage
  - women to be completely covered except for their hands and eyes
+ Mosque, Rules and behaviour in mosques, Men and women pray in different parts
  * Islamic law requires men and women to be separated in the prayer hall. Ideally, women should pray behind men. Muhammad said, women should pray at home, not at the mosque. Muhammad thought women should not be forbidden in mosques. The second caliph Umar at one time stopped women from attending mosques, especially at night, because he feared they may be teased by males, so he made them to pray at home.

Japanese law
* forbids the extradition of Japanese nationals.
* holds that a husbands absence constitutes divorce.
* is based on the postwar constitution.
* prohibit mangas from showing hardcore pictures - explicit drawings.
* prohibits religious organizations from owning for-profit businesses.
* recognise divorce, granted on mutual consent, on a form signed by both parties.

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Jewish law
* focuses entirely on natural relationships to establish parental rights and duties.
* forbids euthanasia in all forms, and is considered an act of homicide
  - smoking on the day of rest
* holds that abortion is murder, plain and simple.
* is built on the concept of mitzvah, or obligation
  - far closer to British common law than to ancient Roman law
* mandates abortion in certain cases, like saving the life of the mother.
* prohibits infanticide, human sacrifice, and killing for sport
  - the mixing of two kinds of anything
* recognizes divorce, made official by a document called a Get
  - that the woman who gestates and gives birth to a child is the child's mother
* requires burial in the earth
  - male children be circumcised on the eighth day following birth
  - that the entire body of a person be returned to the earth
* stipulates that almost all commandments can be violated to save human life.

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Labor law
* applies to employees.
* determines the rights and obligations which arise out of an employment contract.
* give workers the freedom to choose where they want to work without undue pressure.
* governs the relations between employers and unions.
* provide for equal rates of pay for equal work for men and women in the public sector.
* requires unions to negotiate and enforce contracts for members and non-members alike.
* restrict the right of contingent workers to form unions and bargain collectively.
* vary greatly between countries, as do the local systems of enforcement.