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Gayoye, Martha (2022) Why women judges really matter : the impact of women judges on property law outcomes in Kenya. Social & Legal Studies, 31 (1). pp. 72-98. doi:10.1177/09646639211007905 ISSN 0964-6639.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09646639211007905
Abstract
In this paper, I discuss the impact that women judges have made in property law outcomes in Kenya. The study shows that women judges were able to influence a feminist jurisprudence in matrimonial property and inheritance disputes peripherally even though they were not sitting in some of those cases – through trainings of other [male] judges and informal interactions with colleagues. I argue that there is need to focus lens on the collaborative and networking programmes of women judges to bring about institutional change as opposed to a focus on individual women judges. The findings suggest that studies that focus on individual [women] judges have far less potential to uncover the impact of collective efforts of women judges. Existing studies are based largely on Anglo-American positivist methodologies that are based on methodological individualism over collectivism. It is no wonder that the collective efforts of women judges under the auspices of the International Women Judges Association has received little to no scholarly attention.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | K Law [Moys] > KR Africa | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Women judges -- Kenya, Sex discrimination in justice administration -- Kenya, Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Kenya, Marital property -- Kenya, Right of property -- Kenya | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social & Legal Studies | ||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0964-6639 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 February 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 31 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 72-98 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/09646639211007905 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 June 2021 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 24 June 2021 |
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