DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH: LEGAL PLURALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

该项目的目标是通过以色列、埃及和印度的宗教个人地位法（即结婚、离婚、继承、继承等），对国家-社会关系和人权背景下的法律多元主义进行政治分析。该研究解释了为什么民族国家承认并将非国家规范性命令（习惯法和宗教属人法）纳入其统一的法律体系。此外，研究人员还评估了这种整合对后殖民社会中中央国家行政部门的能力以及公民的个人自由和权利的影响。许多人断言，个人地位法领域的多中心法律秩序是由于欧洲帝国的殖民遗产，与此相反，研究人员假设，大多数后殖民民族国家根据理性的成本效益计算来决定是否承认和纳入非国家规范秩序。该项目在法律和社会领域具有深远的理论和实践意义。它的主要目的是促进我们对法律多元主义的理解，并通过提供本体论和认识论的创新来为文献做出贡献，例如为现有的殖民遗产理论引入另一种新的制度主义方法，并提出新的术语和命名法。由于这是一篇博士论文，该项目融合了科学研究和更高的教育目标，并采用了政治学、法学、人类学和社会学的多学科方法。这项工作的主要论点是，宗教个人地位法领域的法律多元化侵犯了妇女、持不同政见者和非宗教人士的权利。因此，通过传播研究结果，这项研究有助于更好地了解以色列、印度和埃及的良心和宗教自由、妇女解放和代表人数不足的群体摆脱父权制和宗教压迫。

The goal of this project is to provide a political analysis of the legal pluralism in the context of state-society relations and human rights through the lenses of religious personal status laws (i.e. marriage, divorce, inheritance, succession etc.) in Israel, Egypt and India. The study explains why nation-states recognize and incorporate non-state normative orders (customary and religious personal laws) into their unified body of law. In addition, the researchers assess the implications of this incorporation upon the capacities of central state administrations and individual freedoms and rights of citizens in post-colonial societies. As opposed to many, who assert that polycentric legal orders in the field of personal status laws are due to the colonial legacies of European empires, the researchers hypothesize that most post-colonial nation-states make their decisions whether to recognize and incorporate non-state normative orders based on rational cost-benefit calculations. The project has far-reaching theoretical and practical implications on the field of law and society. It primarily serves the aim of furthering our understanding of legal pluralism and contributes to the literature by providing ontological and epistemological innovations, such as introducing an alternative new institutionalist approach to the existing colonial legacy theories and suggesting a new terminology and nomenclature. Since it is a doctoral dissertation, the project blends the scientific endeavor and higher goals of education in its nature with a multidisciplinary approach derived from political science, law, anthropology and sociology. The main contention of the work is that legal pluralism in the field of religious personal status laws infringe upon the rights of women, political dissidents and seculars. Hence, by the dissemination of research findings, the study contributes to a better understanding of freedom of conscience and religion, and emancipation of women, and under-represented groups from patriarchal and religious oppression in Israel, India and Egypt.