tailieunhanh - Constituting Equality gender equality and comparative constitutional law

Constitutionalism is sweeping the world. Since 1990, at least 110 countries around the globe have been engaged in writing new constitutions or major revisions of old In many of these countries, issues of gender equality have been a central concern in the constitutional process. Women have been active participants in these constitutional projects, and they have worked for the inclusion of a broad range of constitutional provisions and mechanisms to promote gender equality | g 9780521898362 Edited by Susan H. Williams Cambkhkỉk Cambridge constituting Equality Gender Equality and Comparative Constitutional Law This page intentionally left blank constituting equality Gender Equality and Comparative Constitutional Law Constituting Equality addresses the question how would you write a constitution if you really cared about gender equality The book takes a design-oriented approach to the broad range of issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality. Each section of the book examines a particular set of constitutional issues or doctrines across a range of different countries to explore what works where and why. Topics include 1 governmental structure particularly electoral gender quotas 2 rights provisions 3 constitutional recognition of cultural or religious practices that discriminate against women 4 domestic incorporation of international law and 5 the role of women in the process of constitution making. Interdisciplinary in orientation and global in scope the book provides a menu for constitutional designers and others interested in how the fundamental legal order might more effectively promote gender equality. Susan H. Williams is the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law where she also serves as the Director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy. Professor Williams graduated from Harvard Law School where she served as the Supervising Editor of the Harvard Law Review and then clerked for Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the . Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 1985-1986 . She has been a visiting faculty member at the University of Paris II Pantheon-Assas and a Fellow at Wolfson College Cambridge University and at the European University Institute in Fiesole Italy. Professor Williams is the author of Truth Autonomy and Speech Feminist Theory and the First Amendment 2004 . She has published numerous articles on issues related to .