Flavia Agnes, Family Law and Constitutional Claims; Flavia Agnes, Marriage, Divorce and Matrimonial Litigation
| Author | Anju Tyagi |
| Published date | 01 June 2013 |
| Date | 01 June 2013 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/2277401720130109 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
FAMILY LAW VOLUME I: FAMILY LAW &
CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS AND VOLUME
II: MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND
MATRIMONIAL LITIGATION
Flavia Agnes, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011, Paperback,
Pages 600 +508. Rs. 350 +450.
Anju Tyagi*
INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................130
I. LAW, JUSTICE AND GENDER .................................................................. 131
II. FAMILY LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS ..................................... 132
III. MARRIAGE, DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL LITIGATION...................... 132
CONCLUSION ........................................................................................... 134
INTRODUCTION
Personal laws occupy a unique position in today's age and play a pivotal
role in keeping the society within moral and civil bonds. Matrimonial
Jurisprudence and constitutional claims of women are the main themes of
these volumes, which has been explored by the author in depth. Justice Ajit
Prakash Shah has aptly observed, in the Foreword to the book, that the
“primary aim behind writing the present books is to bring a number of
problems in the society to the fore, and not merely to enter into an academic
1
exercise of compilation of information.” Upendra Baxi has rightly
remarked that the books highlight “the imperatives of retooling and
recrafting activist critique in the service of a better future of Women's
2
Rights as Human Rights.”
* Associate Professor, National Law University, Delhi.
1Ajit Prakash Shah, Foreword, in FLAVIA AGNES, FAMILY LAWS & CONSTITUTIONAL
CLAIMS (OUP 2011) (hereinafter CONSTITUTIONAL CLAIMS).
2 FLAVIA AGNES, MARRIAGE, DIVORCE & MATRIMONIAL LITIGATION (OUP 2011)
(hereinafter MATRIMONIAL LITIGATION) (Back cover blurb by Upendra Baxi).
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