POLYGAMY, BIGAMY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
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POLYGAMY, BIGAMY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Samuel Chapman 6085-CHAP
Copyright © 2001 by Samuel Chapman. ISBN #:
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CONTENTS Chapter 1–Introduction ................................................ 9 Chapter 2—Review of the Literature on Plural Marriage ...................................................... 13 Chapter 3–The Criminal Law–Bigamy and Related Offences .................................................... 23 Chapter 4–The Civil law and Plural Marriage ............. 41 Chapter 5–Comparison of Reasoning and Identification of Assumptions ................................. 55 Chapter 6–Testing assumptions against Research and Data ................................................. 61 Chapter 7–Plural Marriage and Human Rights ........... 71 Chapter 8–Opportunities for Change in the Law ......... 83 Chapter 9–Conclusion ................................................ 95 Recommended further reading .................................... 99
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To A.A.S. Zuckerman, Fellow in Law at University College, Oxford, who first taught me that the law was whatever I could successfully argue it to be.
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CHAPTER 1–INTRODUCTION In the latter half of the