We’re delighted to announce the publication of the 6th issue of our Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series: One Hundred Years of Family Law Reform in Parliament, in Court, and on Screen by AKU-ISMC's Professor Gianluca Parolin (ed.) and the contributors: Nadia Sonneveld, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Enas Lofti.
Abstract
Legislation as a way to regulate personal status matters has — over the period considered — come to embody the chief mode of (legal) reform of personal status. While recognising its tremendous impetus, this paper interrogates the very form of collective decision-making that legislation signifies, its operationalisation in adjudication, and its interrelation with popular culture. The three contributors identify some of the areas where these dynamics have surfaced in their experiences as both academics and practitioners and consider the Egyptian legal system, which is meant to function as a case study rather than a normative model. To appreciate the functioning of collective decision-making on matters of personal status, Nadia Sonneveld focuses on the different approach of the state towards the regulation of personal status for its Muslim and non-Muslim citizens. The ‘best interests of the child’ is the lens through which Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron illustrates the multiple entanglements of legislation and its eventual actualisation in Egyptian courts. Enas Lotfy discusses the classical examples of Egyptian cinema that are popularly associated with changes in legislation and underlines how the big screen in Egypt has often been the place where some of the most contentious and divisive matters of personal status have been discussed before (or away from) legislative intervention.
We’re delighted to announce the publication of the 6th issue of our Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series: One Hundred Years of Family Law Reform in Parliament, in Court, and on Screen by AKU-ISMC's Professor Gianluca Parolin (ed.) and the contributors: Nadia Sonneveld, Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron, Enas Lofti.
Abstract
Legislation as a way to regulate personal status matters has — over the period considered — come to embody the chief mode of (legal) reform of personal status. While recognising its tremendous impetus, this paper interrogates the very form of collective decision-making that legislation signifies, its operationalisation in adjudication, and its interrelation with popular culture. The three contributors identify some of the areas where these dynamics have surfaced in their experiences as both academics and practitioners and consider the Egyptian legal system, which is meant to function as a case study rather than a normative model. To appreciate the functioning of collective decision-making on matters of personal status, Nadia Sonneveld focuses on the different approach of the state towards the regulation of personal status for its Muslim and non-Muslim citizens. The ‘best interests of the child’ is the lens through which Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron illustrates the multiple entanglements of legislation and its eventual actualisation in Egyptian courts. Enas Lotfy discusses the classical examples of Egyptian cinema that are popularly associated with changes in legislation and underlines how the big screen in Egypt has often been the place where some of the most contentious and divisive matters of personal status have been discussed before (or away from) legislative intervention.