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Nepal And Bhutan In 2009: Transition Travails?, Mahendra Lawoti
Nepal And Bhutan In 2009: Transition Travails?, Mahendra Lawoti
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Democratic transitions in Nepal and Bhutan ran into challenges in 2009. The integration of Maoist combatants, polarization among political parties, increasing ethnic assertion, and mushrooming armed groups have delayed constitution writing in Nepal and led to political instability. In Bhutan, societal assertion against limited rights and discrimination is increasing.
Family Constitutions And The (New) Constitution Of The Family, Linda C. Mcclain
Family Constitutions And The (New) Constitution Of The Family, Linda C. Mcclain
Faculty Scholarship
This article looks at a topic that has received little attention in the legal literature: constitution making by families. Of what interest is it to constitutional law and family law, and to those interested in the state of the family, that families undertake to draft - and are urged by assorted experts on the family to draft - family constitutions (by analogy to the U.S. constitution) and family mission statements (by analogy to corporate mission statements)? This article contends that this reported trend is a fruitful topic of inquiry, since it bears on important questions about the dynamics of family …