Cultural diversity and the law
Subtitle: state responses from around the world : proceedings of the colloquium "The Response of State Law to the Expression of Cultural Diversity," Brussels, September 2006
By: editors Marie-Claire Foblets, Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens, Alison Dundes Renteln
Contributors: Foblets, Marie-Claire, 1965-; Gaudreault-DesBiens, Jean-François, 1965-; Renteln, Alison Dundes; Foblets, Marie-Claire, 1959-
Publisher: Bruylant; Y. Blais
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bruxelles; Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1007
ISBN-13: 9782802727644; 9782896353712
Subjects: Multiculturalism; Law and legislation; Cultural pluralism; Culture conflict; Human rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Law in the face of cultural diversity : South Africa  -- Tom W. Bennett; title: On freedom, equality and citizenship : changing fundamentals of Dutch minority policy and law (immigration, integration, education and religion)  -- B.P. Vermeulen; title: On the recognition and institutionalisation of Islam in Germany  -- Mathias Rohe; title: The state management of legal and cultural diversity in Canada  -- Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens; title: Legal responses to cultural diversity : multi-ethnicity, the state, and the law in Latin America  -- Monique Nuijten; title: Ghana : how does state law accommodate religious, cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity?  -- Gordon R. Woodman; title: Cultural diversity and the law in East Timor  -- Peter Wesley-Smith; title: The response of state law to religious, linguistic, cultural and ethnic diversity in Zambia  -- Chuma Himonga; title: Lebanese law in face of the diversity of communities and cultures -- Pierre Gannagé.; title: Law and cultural diversity in Spain / Maria Elósegui and Cesar Arjona --; title: A framework for pluralistic socio-legal arenas  -- Brian Z. Tamanaha; title: Law, state and culture : how countries accommodate religious, cultural and ethnic diversity, the British and Indian experiences  -- Werner Menski; title: Islam in contemporary France and Indonesia : challenges for legal pluralism  -- John R. Bowen; title: Islam and the European system of state-religions relations throughout Europe  -- Silvio Ferrari; title: Reference to public order ("ordre public") in French private international law  -- Paul Lagarde; title: Egypt : religious pluralism and the law : how does Egyptian civil law accommodate religious diversity?  -- Hossam El-Ehwany; title: The management of religious diversity in Tunisian family law  -- M. Ben Jémia; title: Islamic family law and custom in Denmark  -- Rubya Mehdi; title: The French family judge encounters cultural pluralism -- Hugues Fulchiron.; title: Entering the religious thicket : principle or precedent?  -- Natasha Bakht; title: Human rights as a framework for negotiating/protecting cultural differences : an exploration of the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights  -- Eva Brems; title: European minority rights  -- Bruno de Witte; title: International human rights, women, gender and culture : perspectives from Africa  -- Ann Griffiths; title: Regional integration and cultural diversity : the case of European citizenship  -- Jean-Yves Carlier; title: International normative action for cultural diversity : the contribution of UNESCO  -- Jan Wouters and Maarten Vidal; title: The cultural defense : challenging the monocultural paradigm  -- Alison Dundes Renteln; title: Sustainable management of religious diversity : an overview of the Belgian model and its prospects for success  -- Louis-Léon Christians; title: Empirical conflict rules in Dutch legal cases of cultural diversity -- André J. Hoekema and Wibo M. Van Rossum.; title: Unity and diversity : multiple citizenship in Indonesia / Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann --; title: Cree conceptions of aboriginal rights -- Andrée Lajoie, Cécile Bergada and Alexandre Courtemanche.