Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels

Religious Arbitration in America and the West
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-064028-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 631 g

This book explores the rise of private arbitration in religious and other values-oriented communities, and it argues that secular societies should use secular legal frameworks to facilitate, enforce, and also regulate religious arbitration. It covers the history of religious arbitration; the kinds of faith-based dispute resolution models currently in use; how the law should perceive them; and what the role of religious arbitration in the United States and the western
world should be. Part One examines why religious individuals and communities are increasingly turning to private faith-based dispute resolution to arbitrate their litigious disputes. It focuses on why religious communities feel disenfranchised from secular law, and particularly secular family law.
Part Two looks at why American law is so comfortable with faith-based arbitration, given its penchant for enabling parties to order their relationships and resolve their disputes using norms and values that are often different from and sometimes opposed to secular standards. Part Three weighs the proper procedural, jurisdictional, and contractual limits of arbitration generally, and of religious arbitration particularly. It identifies and explains the reasonable limitations on religious
arbitration. Part Four examines whether secular societies should facilitate effective, legally enforceable religious dispute resolution, and it argues that religious arbitration is not only good for the religious community itself, but that having many different avenues for faith-based arbitration which are
properly limited is good for any vibrant pluralistic democracy inhabited by diverse faith groups.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broyde, Michael J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Zivilprozess- und Schiedsverfahrensrecht

Über Autor(innen)

Michael J. Broyde is a law professor at Emory University School of Law, and a senior fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. His areas of specialty are law and religion, Jewish law and ethics, and comparative religious law. Professor Broyde has also taught Federal Courts, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and Secured Credit and Bankruptcy. Broyde is also a rabbi and served as the director of, and a judge in, the Beth Din
of America, the largest Jewish law court in the United States.