Suchergebnisse

Gender and Judging Perspectives from Africa: A Case of Old Wine in New Skins or New Wine in Old Skins? / J. Jarpa Dawuni, Ph.D -- An Analysis of Gender Equality Jurisprudence by Kenyan Courts Since the Enactment of the 2010 Constitution / Nancy Baraza, Ph.D -- To win Both the Battle and the War: Judicial Determination of Property Rights of Spouses in Ghana / Maame Yaa Mensa-Bonsu and Maame A.S. Mensa-Bonsu -- Litigating Gender Discrimination Cases Before the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights / Osai Ojigho -- Femicide and Judging: Social Media as an Alternative Online Court in Kenya / Stephen Mutoka Mutie, Ph.D -- Judging Beyond Gender: Maternal and Infant Mortality as an Emerging Gender Related Issue in Ugandan Courts / W. Naigaga Kyobiika -- Revenge Pornography as a form of Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Ghana: Emerging Judicial Issues / Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom -- 'Judging' Lesbians: Prospects for Advancing Lesbian Rights Protection through Courts in Nigeria / Pedi Obani, Ph.D -- The Feminine Face of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights / Reini Alapini-Gansou -- Pursuing Gender Equality Through the Courts: The Role of South Africa's Women Judges / Penelope Andrews, Ph.D -- One Sauce for the Goose, Another for the Gander: Zambian Women Judges and Perceptions of Illegitimacy / Tabeth Masengu, Ph.D -- Unlocking Gender Inequality Through Judicial Training: Insights from Tanzania / Juliana Masabo, Ph.D -- Gender Awareness Training in Judicial Training Institutes in Kenya and Uganda / Nightingale Rukuba-Ngaiza, Ph.D -- Global Pandemic: Covid-19, the Courts, and the Justice System / Muna Ndulo, Ph.D -- Sexual Violence during the COVID 19 Pandemic in Uganda: Lessons for the Criminal Justice System / Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza, Ph.D.

"Women judges are playing increasingly prominent roles in many African judiciaries, yet there remains very little comparative research on the subject. Drawing on extensive cross-national data and theoretical and empirical analysis, this book provides a timely and broad-ranging assessment of gender and judging in African judiciaries. Employing different theoretical approaches, the book investigates how women have fared within domestic African judiciaries, as both actors and litigants. It explores how women negotiate multiple hierarchies to access the judiciary, and how gender-related issues are handled in courts. The chapters in the book provide policy, theoretical and practical prescriptions to the challenges identified, and offer recommendations for the future directions of gender and judging in the post-Covid-19 era, including the role of technology, artificial intelligence, social media, and institutional transformations that can help promote women's rights. Bringing together specific cases from Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania and South Africa, and regional bodies such as ECOWAS and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and covering a broad range of thematic reflections, this book will be of interest to scholars, students and practitioners of African law, judicial politics, judicial training, and gender studies. It will also be useful to bilateral and multilateral donor institutions financing gender sensitive judicial reform programs particularly in Africa"--

"This book examines women's access to justice in both traditional and statutory courts through an intersectional lens. It analyzes the lived experiences of women and their access to justice by situating the courtroom as both a spatial and a temporal arena for seeking justice (as litigants) and for seeking access to the bench (as judges)"--

1. Gender and the judiciary in Africa : an introduction / Josephine Dawuni -- 2. Egypt : the lingering battle for female judgeship / Mahmoud Hamad -- 3. Botswana : delayed indigenization and feminization of the judiciary / Gretchen Bauer and Rachel Ellett -- 4. South Africa : a transformative constitution and a representative judiciary / Cathi Albertyn and Elsje Bonthuys -- 5. Nigeria : women judges enhancing the judiciary / Hauwa Ibrahim -- 6. Tunisia : new constitution and more women judges / Salsabil Klibi -- 7. Tanzania : women judges as agents of judicial education / Mi Yung Yoon -- 8. Benin : women judges promoting women's rights / Alice Kang -- 9. Ghana : the paradox of judicial stagnation / Josephine Dawuni -- 10. Rwanda : balancing gender quotas and an independent judiciary / Jean-Marie Kamatali -- 11. Gender and the judiciary in Africa : conclusion / Gretchen Bauer.

"Drawing from postcolonial feminism, feminist institutionalism, feminist legal theory, and legal narratives, this book provides fresh and detailed narratives of seven women judges that challenge existing discourse on gender diversity in international courts. It answers important questions about how the politics of judicial appointments, gender, geographic location, class, and professional capital combine to shape the lives of women judges who sit on international courts and argues the need to disaggregate gender diversity with a view to understanding intra-group differences."-- Book p. [i]

A critical history of the Americanization of legal education in fourteen countriesThe second half of the twentieth century witnessed the export of American power—both hard and soft—throughout the world. What role did US cultural and economic imperialism play in legal education? American Legal Education Abroad offers an unprecedented and surprising picture of the history of legal education in fourteen countries beyond the United States.Each study in this book represents a critical history of the Americanization of legal education, reexamining prevailing narratives of exportation, transplantation, and imperialism. Collectively, these studies challenge the conventional wisdom that American ideas and practices have dominated globally. Editors Susan Bartie and David Sandomierski and their contributors suggest that to understand legal education and to respond thoughtfully to the mounting present-day challenges, it is essential to look beyond a particular region and consider not only the ideas behind legal education but also the broader historical, political, and cultural factors that have shaped them.American Legal Education Abroad begins with an important foundational history by leading Harvard Law School historian Bruce Kimball, who explains the factors that created a transportable American legal model, and the book concludes with reflections from two prominent American law professors, Susan Carle and Bob Gordon, whose observations on recent disruptions within US law schools suggest that their influence within the global order of legal education may soon fall into further decline. This book should be considered an invaluable resource for anyone in the field of law