Description
The complex legal situations arising from the coexistence of international law, state law, and social and religious norms in different parts of the world often include scenarios of conflict between them. These conflicting norms issued from different categories of ‘laws’ result in difficulties in describing, identifying and analysing human rights in plural environments.
This volume studies how normative conflicts unfold when trapped in the aspirations of human rights and their local realizations. It reflects on how such tensions can be eased, while observing how and why they occur. The authors examine how obedience or resistance to the official law is generated through the interaction of a multiplicity of conflicting norms, interpretations and practices. Emphasis is placed on the actors involved in raising or decreasing the tension surrounding the conflict and the implications that the conflict carries, whether resolved or not, in conditions of asymmetric power movements. It is argued that legal responsiveness to state law depends on how people with different identities deal with it, narrate it and build expectations from it, bearing in mind that normative pluralism may also operate as an instrument towards the exclusion of certain communities from the public sphere. The chapters look particularly to expose the dialogue between parallel normative spheres in order for law to become more effective, while investigating the types of socio-legal variables that affect the functioning of law, leading to conflicts between rights, values and entire cultural frames.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Conflicts over Justice and Hybrid Social Actors as Legal Agents - Werner Menski
PART I: Preventing Conflict
2. Beyond the Pedagogical Beauty of Dichotomy: Comparative Law Methodology in Liquid Times – Tommaso Amico di Meane
3. Managing Language in Multicultural Societies: Learning from the Indian Experience - Domenico Amirante
PART II: Articulating Conflict
4. De-Religionising Religion: The European Court of Human Rights and the Conflict of Definition– Kyriaki Pavlidou
5. Immigrants or New Religious Minorities? Conflicting European and International Perspectives - Fabienne Bretscher
6. Conscientious objection in Swedish and Italian health care: Paradoxical Secularizations and Unbalanced Pluralisms - Melisa Vazquez
7. The Unfinished Education: Religion, Education and Power Struggles in Multicultural Israel – Kyriaki Topidi
PART III: Processing Conflict
8. Feminist Dilemmas: The Challenges in Accommodating Women’s Rights within Religion-based Family Law in India - Tanja Herklotz
9. Tamasha: The Theatrics of Disputing and Non-State Dispute Processing - Kalindi Kokal
10. Can Law ‘Sustain’ Cultural Diversity? The Inheritance Laws of Indian Minority Communities and the Italian Legal System – Chiara Lapi
PART IV: Resolving Conflict
11. Multiculturalist Conflicts and Intercultural Law – Pierluigi Consorti
12. Addressing the Possibility of Normative Conflicts around Human Rights: The Concept of Adaptation - Peter G. Kirchschlaeger
13. Adjudication in a Pluralized Legal Field: Proposing Communication as an Analytical Device- Gopika Solanki
14. Two Legal Orders And One Cause—Or a Way to Simultaneous Decision Making - Wolfgang Wieshaider
