Decoupling
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Decoupling

Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts

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Decoupling

Gender Injustice in China's Divorce Courts

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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.This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781108861793
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Law Theory & Practice
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. Preface and Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Sisyphus Goes to Divorce Court
  11. 2 The Right to Decouple
  12. 3 The Divorce Twofer: Why Court Behavior Is Decoupled from the Right to Decouple
  13. 4 Studying Judicial Decision-Making: Court Decisions in Henan and Zhejiang
  14. 5 “Many Cases, Few Judges” and the Vanishing Three-Judge Trial
  15. 6 Tracing the Origins of the Divorce Twofer to Heavy Caseloads
  16. 7 How Judges Gaslight Domestic Violence Victims in Divorce Trials
  17. 8 Divorce Denials: Judicial Discourse and Judicial Decision-Making
  18. 9 Fight or Flight: Consequences of the Judicial Clampdown on Divorce
  19. 10 Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law: Why Wife-Beaters Gain Child Custody
  20. 11 Quantitative Patterns in Child Custody Determinations: Sons to Fathers, Daughters to Mothers, Abusers Rewarded, Victims Punished
  21. 12 Conclusions: Assessing the Impact of Law by Observing Judicial Behavior
  22. References
  23. Index