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2003 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition International Court Of Justice, Moirah Sanchez, Carlos Hurtado, Anneliese Fleckenstein, Jose Gregorio Rojas
2003 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition International Court Of Justice, Moirah Sanchez, Carlos Hurtado, Anneliese Fleckenstein, Jose Gregorio Rojas
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
This dispute arises from the Dysfuntian civil war between Restonian and Cascadian militias, resulting in the creation of Reston (Respondent)-a developing State-and Cascadia (not party to the case).
The Marriage Dower: Essential Guarantor Of Women's Rights In The West Bank And Gaza Strip, Heather Jacobson
The Marriage Dower: Essential Guarantor Of Women's Rights In The West Bank And Gaza Strip, Heather Jacobson
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
This Article evaluates the impact that eliminating or reducing the marriage dower would have on the well-being of Muslim women in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Although Palestinian women's rights organizations seek to eliminate dower on the grounds that it is a "burdensome custom" that is "inconsistent with the intifada's stated goal of improving women's status," in fact, the interaction between dower and other laws relating to marriage and divorce is such that the majority of women would be materially harmed by its discontinuance. Therefore, while the movement to eliminate dower may benefit the financially secure upper class women …