Decoupling : gender injustice in China's divorce courts /

Decoupling : gender injustice in China's divorce courts

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Main Author: Cambridge University Press ()
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press ()
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Zagadnienia prawa cywilnego państw obcych
Chiny / China
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Description:
Michelson's analysis of almost 150,000 divorce trials reveals routine and egregious violations of China's own laws upholding the freedom of divorce, gender equality, and the protection of women's physical security. Using 'big data' computational techniques to scrutinize cases covering 2009–2016 from all 252 basic-level courts in two Chinese provinces, Henan and Zhejiang, Michelson reveals that women have borne the brunt of a dramatic intensification since the mid-2000s of a decades-long practice of denying divorce requests. This book takes the reader upstream to the institutional sources of China's clampdown on divorce and downstream to its devastating and highly gendered human toll, showing how judges in an overburdened court system clear their oppressive dockets at the expense of women's lawful rights and interests. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Chinese courts, judicial decision-making, family law, gender violence, and the limits and possibilities of the globalization of law.


Table of Contents:
  • Sisyphus Goes to Divorce Court (s. 1-34) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.002
  • The Right to Decouple (s. 35-64) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.003
  • The Divorce Twofer (s. 65-102) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.004
  • Studying Judicial Decision-Making (s. 103-153) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.005
  • “Many Cases, Few Judges” and the Vanishing Three-Judge Trial (s. 154-186) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.006
  • Tracing the Origins of the Divorce Twofer to Heavy Caseloads (s. 187-236) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.007
  • How Judges Gaslight Domestic Violence Victims in Divorce Trials (s. 237-269) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.008
  • Divorce Denials (s. 270-330) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.009
  • Fight or Flight (s. 331-380) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.010
  • Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law : Why Wife-Beaters Gain Child Custody (s. 381-411) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.011
  • Quantitative Patterns in Child Custody Determinations : Sons to Fathers, Daughters to Mothers, Abusers Rewarded, Victims Punished (s. 412-451) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.012
  • Conclusions : Assessing the Impact of Law by Observing Judicial Behavior (s. 452-475) https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108768177.013