Droit irakien
Les statuts personnels en Irak : Les défis du pluralisme juridique comme modus vivendi
Tributaire des données religieuses, le statut personnel irakien met en relief les originalités et les particularismes des diverses communautés religieuses traditionnellement établies dans le pays. Depuis fort longtemps, le droit étatique musulman s’accommode de l’existence de diverses formes de normativité régissant certains groupes de la population. Ceux-ci sont souverains pour fixer les prescriptions de leurs […] Lire la suite
Filiation and the Protection of Parentless Children : Towards a Social Definition of the Family in Muslim Jurisdictions
Abstract The Iraqi legal corpus on filiation consists of a set of rules that are a mix of traditional law and modern law. Inspired by Islamic law in general, the Personal Status Code of 1959 expressly recognizes two grounds for establishing filiation, namely valid marriage (firash) and acknowledgment of filiation (iqrar). The Code of Evidence of […] Lire la suite
Parental Care and the Best Interests of the Child in Muslim Countries
The book marks the completion of Max Planck Working Group on Child Law in Muslim Countries’ first project phase. It comprises a total of ten country reports on questions of custody, guardianship and their development within different Muslim jurisdictions as well as two comparative analyses of parental care in both public and private international law. […] Lire la suite