Uniform Civil Code for India: Proposed Blueprint for Scholarly Discourse - Hardcover

Shetreet, Shimon; Chodosh, Hiram E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198077122 ISBN 13: 9780198077121

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Article 44 of The Constitution of India, provides that 'The State shall endeavor to secure for the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India.' Even after more than six decades, this anticipated code has not been developed or implemented. This book provides a blueprint for alternative frameworks and courses of action, drawing on lessons from comparative context to develop a Uniform Civil Code for India. It explores the interplay between issues of law, culture, and religion in light of various intra-community and inter-community disputes. The book proposes a series of guidelines and considerations to inform this process.

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About the Author

Shimon Shetreet, Professor, Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel,Hiram E. Chodosh, President/Professor, Claremont McKenna College

Shimon Shetreet, LLB, LLM, Hebrew University, MCL, DCL, holds the Greenblatt Chair of Public and International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and is past chairman of the Sacher Institute of Legislative Research and Comparative Law. He was a member of the Chief Justice Landau Commission on the Israeli Court System, 1980, and a Judge on the Standard Contract Court (1981-88).

Hiram E. Chodosh is President and Professor of Claremont McKenna College. Prior to his arrival in Claremont, Chodosh served as Dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, where he was also the Hugh B. Brown Endowed Presidential Professor of Law and Senior Presidential Adviser on Global Strategy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198077122
• ISBN 13: 9780198077121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344