INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW IN CONTEXT

Land rights and neoliberalism : an irreconcilable conflict for indigenous peoples in India?

The Forest Rights Act (FRA) is legislation meant to advance the rights to land for Indigenous forest peoples in India. The author identifies two main challenges to the implementation of the FRA as the incompatibility of the legislation with Advisasi's legal traditions, and the reliance on elected officials to work towards justice.

Gender, Poverty and the Development of the Right to Social Security

This paper examines the international right to social security as declared in the UDHR, and its possible influence in addressing women’s poverty.

Calculating Claims : Jewish and Muslim Women Navigating Religion, Economics and Law in Canada

This paper approaches family law from a law and economics perspective, examining the cost/benefit analysis to women divorcing their husbands through religious law or secular law. Divorce is examined within the Jewish and Muslim traditions in terms of (1) agency of each party to initiate divorce, (2) requirement for the man’s consent for a binding divorce, and (3) process adjudicators.

Seeking Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Transition: Towards a Transformative Women' Human Rights Approach

The article reviews the traditional approaches to transitional justice and examines the benefits of engendering post-war criminal justice. The author concludes by examining UNSCR 1325 to consider the prospect of a broader approach to gender justice. The author argues that achieving justice for women during post-conflict transitions would be best accomplished with bottom-up efforts by women's groups. This approach would enable justice for women by recognizing the myriad of roles that women play during and after conflict, and engaging with the larger human rights framework