Institutional Legal Reform in Kuwait after 2011: The Paradoxes of Establishing Rule of Law amidst Authoritarian Upgrading

In 2015, Law 12 legislated for the establishment of family courts for the first time in the modern history of Kuwait. The reflections and experiences of stakeholders—judges, lawyers, and administrators—surrounding this law are here contextualized from three perspectives: (1) as an institutional mean...

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Main Author: Maktabi, Rania 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Hawwa
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 357-395
RelBib Classification:KBL Near East and North Africa
XA Law
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B adjudication
B Family law
B Women
B legal reform
B Jaʿfari court
B centralization of power
B Rule of law
B Kuwait
B upgrading of authoritarianism
B Family Court
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