Women's Health and the Limits of Law: Domestic and International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781032082042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 324 str.

Irehobhude O. Iyioha

Opis

Despite some significant advances in the creation and protection of rights affecting women’s health, these do not always translate into actual health benefits for women.　This collection asks: 'What is an effective law and what influences law’s effectiveness or ineffectiveness?

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Within and Beyond the Hedge: Form, Substance and the Limit of Laws on Women’s Health











2. Law, Normative Limits and Women’s Health: Towards a Jurisprudence of Substantive Effectiveness











3. On Feminism, Morality and Human Rights: Assessing the Effectiveness of United Kingdom’s FGM Act











4. Abortion Law in China: Disempowering Women under the Liberal Regulatory Model











5. Forced Sterilizations: Addressing the Limitations of International Rights Adjudication through an Intersectional Approach











6. Tilted Interpretations: Reproductive Health Law and Practice in the Philippines











7. Economics and the Limits of Law: An International Analysis of Persistent Gaps in Women’s Reproductive Health











8. Indigenous Feminist Legal Theory: A Multi-Juridical Analysis of the Limits of Law for Indigenous Women Living with HIV in Canada











9. Domestication and Reception of International Reproductive Health Law and the Limits of Law: Perspectives from Nigeria and South Africa











10. On the Margins of Law: Examining the Limits of Legislative Initiatives on Maternal Mortality in South Africa and Nigeria

O autorze

Irehobhude O. Iyioha, LL.B., LL.M., BL., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada and an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Dossetor Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. She has held teaching positions at the Faculties of Law at Western University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the recipient of the 18th World Congress on Medical Law Award from the World Association for Medical Law for her seminal work on legal effectiveness and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Award, 2017 for scholarly work that makes a substantial contribution to legal literature for her theory of Substantive (Legal) Effectiveness.