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This article examines the eighteenth century case of Mohegan Indians v. Connecticut in order to determine its significance for arguments about the legal status of Aboriginal customary law and government in British North America. The article concludes that the Mohegan case confirms that in certain circumstances native nations on reserved lands in British colonies were subject, not to colonial jurisdictions established for settlers, but to their own traditional customs and institutions. It also concludes that the case is less clear than some recent commentators have suggested about whether British law recognized such nations as having rights of sovereignty.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Court-based and Dispute Resolution Strategies -- 1 - Hearing the Voices of Children in Court Proceedings -- 2 - Advocacy for Delinquent Children through Courts -- 3 - The Development of Voluntary Child Protection in China -- Part II: Legislative Strategies and Social Movements -- 4 - Protecting Children's Rights in Kenya: Advancing the Case for a Sexual Offences Bill -- 5 - International Child Abduction -- 6 - Kinship Care as a Preventive Child Welfare Movement in the United States: One State's Efforts -- Part III: Community Education and Street Law Strategies -- 7 - Power Pack: Young People and Advocacy -- 8 - Early Interventions: Domestic Violence Education for Teens -- 9 - Socio-legal Aspects of Child Abuse Prevention -- Part IV: Integrated Strategies -- 10 - On Child Advocacy and Politics: Child Advocacy as an Effort to Swim Against the Tide -- 11 - Child Labour in India: Strategies for its Elimination -- 12 - Juvenile Justice in Pakistan -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.

The Status of Women in Arab Laws in the Light of the U.N. International Conventions is the title of a book of over 600 pages, written in both Arabic and English and issued at the Seminar held by the National Council of Lebanese Women, Beirut, 1974.

Cover -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 / Freedom Bound in a New Republic -- 2 / Black Clients, White Attorneys -- 3 / The Doswell Brothers Demand a Law -- 4 / Family and Freedom in the Neighborhood -- 5 / To Liberia and Back -- 6 / Family Bonds and Civil War -- 7 / The Barber of Boydton -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Personal Status Laws were the subject of a round table discussion held at the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World in January 2005. The participants were Dr. Bechir Bilani, Attorney at law, Mohammad Matar, Attorney at law, Ahmad El-Zein, Attorney at law, Judge Arlette Juraysati, and Dr. Ibrahim Najjar. The moderator was Dr. Najla Hamadeh. Also present were Dr. Dima Dabbous-Sensenig, Acting Director of the Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World, and Myriam Sfeir, Assistant Editor of Al-Raida.

"Analysing the strategies people use to resist, accept and respond to laws that attempt to shape not just their behaviour, but also their identity, this book pursues a critical engagement with legal gender transition. The Gender Recognition Act (GRA) has often been described as a groundbreaking and progressive legal framework for allowing people to legally change their gender. This book seeks to challenge this representation by drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with trans people about the GRA. Theoretically this book uses the concepts of legal consciousness, agency and emotion to highlight the normative underpinnings of the GRA. Overall, the book contends, the GRA does not accurately reflect many trans people's own understanding of their gender identity or their sexuality. It is designed to create subjects that govern their behaviour and self-expression in a way that aligns with a purely binary model of sex/gender and sexuality. Although a deviation from these norms does not incur any direct punishment, it indirectly leads to a denial of rights and legal protections. By reviewing relevant legislation and case law, and through qualitative research, the book establishes how, instead of uncritically accepting or completely rejecting the GRA, trans people enact their singular identities by engaging strategically with law. This book will be of interest across a range of disciplines, including socio-legal studies, family law, gender, sexuality and law as well as sociology courses on gender, identity and social policy"--