1st Edition
Relationships Rights and Legal Pluralism The Inadequacy of Marriage Laws in Europe
Introduction
Anna Juzaszek and Mateusz Stępień
I – Theoretical and historical foundations of relationship design, human rights, and pluralism in Europe.
1. Value-centered approach to the plurality of types of intimate relationships
Mateusz Stępień
2. Article 12 of the ECHR: What are the implications of the right to marry for relationship diversity?
Anna Juzaszek
3. Resisting family diversity? A queer perspective on the European Court of Human Rights attitudes towards heteronormativity and legal pluralism in family regimes
Francesca Miccoli
4. The transformation of marriage: A historical interpretation of a triple change
Pol van de Wiel
II – Legal responses to non-state marriages and proposals for reforms.
5. Addressing non-state marriages in state law: Responses from the Netherlands
Susan Rutten
6. A study of Muslim marriage (and divorce) practices in England and Wales: Making a case for reform
Rehana Parveen
7. Legal pluralism’s perspectives and human rights challenges in marriage and divorce norms: The case of Muslims in Europe
Amal Alqawasmi
III – Empirical research on the marital reality of individuals.
8. Contestations about polygyny: Converts to Islam in the Netherlands
Vanessa Vroon-Najem and Annelies Moors
9. Religious knowledge and legal rights: A study of nikah and secular marriage among South Asian Muslim women in England
Simran Kalra
10. ‘Love’ versus ‘convenience’: Muslim-Christian couples before the Ceutan marriage registry
Ibtisam Sadegh
11. Labour market position, acculturation orientation, and other factors influencing migrant women’s choices of partners and marriage decisions: The case study of a Polish woman living in Madrid
Jan Bazyli Klakla and Paulina Szydłowska-Klakla
Biography
Mateusz Stępień is a professor in the Department of Sociology of Law, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
Anna Juzaszek is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology of Law and Doctoral School in the Social Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
