1st Edition

Gender Justice and Proportionality in India Comparative Perspectives

By Juliette Duara Copyright 2018
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

For a judiciary in a democracy, dispensing justice is not only about doing justice, but also about showing that justice is being done; it is about giving reasons and creating a "culture of justification". The question becomes how to nurture such a culture. A number of liberal democratic jurisdictions have answered this question in part with the adoption of the multi-step method of evaluating the... Read more
1. Acknowledgements
2. List of abbreviations
3. Introduction to Proportionality and Gender Equality
4. Constitutional Courts in Context:  India, Canada and South Africa
5. The Adjudication of Gender Equality in Independent India: Judicial Discourse from Deference to Discord
6. The Theoretical Foundations of Proportionality Analysis
7. Proportionality Analysis in Canadian Gender Equality Jurisprudence
8. Proportionality Analysis in South African Gender Equality Jurisprudence
9. Defining an Indian Proportionality Analysis for Gender Equality and Beyond
10. Index

Biography

Juliette Gregory Duara is a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, USA.