Legal Integration and Rule of Law: A Comparative Analysis

法律一体化与法治：比较分析

• 批准号: 1556539
• 负责人: Susan Hirsch
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: George Mason University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1556539&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Legal; Integration; Rule; Law; Comparative

The growing religious diversity in contemporary democracies makes the peaceful integration of religious minorities a policy and humanitarian imperative, and legal integration initiatives are an increasingly important avenue toward this goal. Yet limited consideration of rule of law exists in studies of the legal integration of religious minorities. Moreover, popular and scholarly accounts tend to depict the intersection of state law and religious law as highly oppositional and generative of contentious public debate. To better understand how rule of law might underpin or emerge from legal integration initiatives, this research explores the following questions: Do legal integration initiatives promote or produce a particular orientation to rule of law? Do they enhance perceptions of rule of law among minority and majority populations or otherwise shape legal consciousness and, in particular, rule of law consciousness? In short, do legal integration initiatives produce more discourse about, more understanding of, and more opportunity for the rule of law? By building theoretical understanding of the relationship between legal integration and rule of law, the research has the potential to contribute to scholarly and policy discussions of legal integration taking place worldwide.The research questions that guide this project will be examined through a cross-continental comparative analysis of legal integration initiatives, specifically the role played by family law in the integration of religious minorities. Field-based research (including interviews, discourse analysis, and focus groups) will be used to develop in-depth ethnographic studies of legal integration initiatives in two sites, Malta and Kenya. The proposed comparative analysis offers a comprehensive treatment of legal integration initiatives through family law, including their dimensions, variance, and effects, and two case studies illuminate these effects in detail, including the experiences of religious minorities. Anticipated project outputs include 1) scholarly publications and 2) a report on legal integration and family law designed for policy audiences.

当代民主国家中日益增长的宗教多样性使得宗教少数群体的和平融合成为一项政策和人道主义任务，而法律的融合举措是实现这一目标的一个日益重要的途径。然而，在关于宗教少数群体的法律的融合的研究中，对法治的考虑有限。 此外，通俗和学术的叙述往往把国家法律和宗教法律的交叉描绘成高度对立和产生有争议的公共辩论。 为了更好地了解法治可能会支持或出现从法律的整合举措，本研究探讨了以下问题：做法律的整合举措促进或产生一个特定的方向法治？它们是否增强了少数群体和多数群体的法治观念，或以其他方式塑造了法律的意识，特别是法治意识？简而言之，法律的一体化举措是否为法治带来了更多的讨论、更多的理解和更多的机会？ 通过建立对法律的融合与法治之间关系的理论理解，这项研究有可能有助于对世界各地的法律的融合进行学术和政策讨论，将通过对法律的融合举措，特别是家庭法在宗教少数群体融合中所发挥的作用进行跨大陆比较分析，审查指导这一项目的研究问题。实地研究（包括访谈、话语分析和焦点小组）将用于对马耳他和肯尼亚两个地点的法律的融合举措进行深入的人种学研究。 拟议的比较分析提供了一个全面的治疗法律的融合举措，通过家庭法，包括其尺寸，方差和效果，和两个案例研究详细阐明这些效果，包括宗教少数群体的经验。 预期的项目产出包括：（1）学术出版物;（2）为政策受众编写的关于法律的一体化和家庭法的报告。