Full citation: Layish, Aharon, 2006. Women and Islamic Law in a Non-Muslim State.
Record Topic: Inheritance
Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America%3$s>
Full citation: Diana Deere, Carmen and Magdalena Leon, 2001. Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America.
Death & Debt: More French Heirs Renounce Succession of Departed, Indebted Parents%3$s>
An equal right to inherit? Women’s land rights, customary law and constitutional reform in Tanzania%3$s>
Full Citation: Dancer, Helen (2017) An equal right to inherit? Women’s land rights, customary law and constitutional reform in Tanzania. Social and Legal Studies, 26 (3). pp. 291-310. ISSN 1461-7390
Innovating Justice for Widows in Kenya%3$s>
Unintended Consequences of Women’s Inheritance Rights on Female Mortality in India%3$s>
Full citation: Rosenblum, D. (2015). Unintended Consequences of Women’s Inheritance Rights on Female Mortality in India. Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63(2), 223-248.
Mapping Women’s Gains in Inheritance and Property Rights under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956%3$s>
Full Citation: Lawyers Collective Women’s Rights Initiative, Mapping Women’s Gains in Inheritance and Property Rights under the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (n.d.).
Gender and Legal Rights in Agricultural Land in India%3$s>
Full Citation: Agarwal, B., “Gender and Legal Rights in Agricultural Land in India,” 12 ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (March 1995).
The Hindu Succession Act: One Law, Plural Identities%3$s>
Full Citation: Bates, K., “The Hindu Succession Act: One Law, Plural Identities,” 50 JOURNAL OF LEGAL PLURALISM 144 (2004)
Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America%3$s>
Full citation: Deere, C. D. and Leon, M., “Who Owns the Land? Gender and Land-Titling Programmes in Latin America,” 1(3) JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE 440 (July 2001). – The main focus of state intervention in Latin American agriculture in the 1990s was on land-titling programs, designed to promote security of tenure and enliven land markets. A review of seven of these projects suggests that they were often designed without sufficient attention to civil codes and marital regimes that protect women’s property rights. They often ignored that a household’s endowment of land may consist of three forms of property: the wife’s, […]