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The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States (2019)
Journal Article
Banda, F. (2019). The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 33(2), 252-275. https://doi.org/10.1093/lawfam/ebz006

While the UN Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is seen to be an African success story, in order to obtain some sense of the impact of CEDAW in African legal systems, this article considers cases in whi... Read More about The Impact of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in Select African States.

The values of liberté, égalité, fraternité fifty years on: why the 'free speech' debate makes it even less likely that Mai '68 could happen in Britain now than it was then (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott-Baumann, A. (2019). The values of liberté, égalité, fraternité fifty years on: why the 'free speech' debate makes it even less likely that Mai '68 could happen in Britain now than it was then. In P. Gibbs, J. Jameson, & A. Elwick (Eds.), Values of the University in a Time of Uncertainty (217-228). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15970-2_15

In May 1968 there was a strong sense of left-wing camaraderie that drew many French university students into collaboration with the workers’ unions to rise up against de Gaulle’s government. It is highly unlikely that British campuses could be grippe... Read More about The values of liberté, égalité, fraternité fifty years on: why the 'free speech' debate makes it even less likely that Mai '68 could happen in Britain now than it was then.

Patchwork laws can’t solve India’s water crisis, Modi govt must push these 2 key bills now (2019)
Digital Artefact
Cullet, P. Patchwork laws can’t solve India’s water crisis, Modi govt must push these 2 key bills now

A Niti Aayog report in 2018 confirmed what we all feared – India is facing the ‘worst water crisis in its history’. But the biggest crisis today is – the crisis of water governance.

In India, the governance of water is organised largely around law... Read More about Patchwork laws can’t solve India’s water crisis, Modi govt must push these 2 key bills now.

The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership (2019)
Journal Article
Meng, G. (2019). The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership. Science & society (New York, N.Y. 1936), 83(3), 300-326. https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.3.300

The Household Responsibility System (HRS) has improved agricultural productivity and promoted economic growth and thus relieved poverty in the rural population of China. However, the prevailing assumptions about its nature are that it was the result... Read More about The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.

Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in China: The Development and Struggle in Chains of State Feminism (2019)
Book Chapter
Jiang, J. (2019). Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in China: The Development and Struggle in Chains of State Feminism. In S. Biddulph, & J. Rosenzweig (Eds.), Handbook on Human Rights in China (253-273). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433688.00022

This chapter examines women’s rights and gender equality in contemporary China from the perspectives of healthcare, education, employment, politics and public life, as well as marriage and property rights. The examination shows how state feminism, wh... Read More about Women’s Rights and Gender Equality in China: The Development and Struggle in Chains of State Feminism.