Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives, edited by Xiaobing Li and Qiang Fang. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. xxx + 284 pp. US$60.00 (hardcover, eBook and web.pdf).

In Spain doctoral studies underwent a major legal reform in 1998. The new legislation has brought together the criteria, norms, rules, and study certificates in universities throughout the country, both public and private. A brief description is presented here of the planning and structuring of doctoral programs, which have two clearly differentiated periods: teaching and research. At the end of the 2-year teaching program, the individual and personal phase of preparing one's doctoral thesis commences. However, despite efforts by the state to regulate these studies and to achieve greater efficiency, critical judgment is in order as to whether the envisioned aims are being achieved, namely, that students successfully complete their doctoral studies. After this analysis, we make proposals for the future aimed mainly at the individual period during which the thesis is written, a critical phase in obtaining the doctor's degree. Not enough attention has been given to this in the existing legislation.

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Meat without Animals: Outcast Objects and the Improvement of London

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424714.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Ted Geier

Keyword(s):

Animal Rights ◽

Legal Reform ◽

Meat Production ◽

History Of ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Covers the long history of the Smithfield animal market and legal reform in London. Shows the relationship of civic improvement tropes, including animal rights, to animal erasure in the form of new foodstuffs from distant meat production sites. The reduction of lives to commodities also informed public abasement of the butchers.

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When Beruriah Met Aisha

Bulletin for the Study of Religion ◽

10.1558/bsor.v39i1.006 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 22-24

Author(s):

Shari Golberg

Keyword(s):

Muslim Women ◽

Legal Reform ◽

Textual Studies ◽

Religious Law ◽

Legal Texts

My dissertation attends to the complex and very fraught relationship that women have with their sacred scriptures by examining overlapping conceptions of religious law and legal reform among Jewish and Muslim women who actively study and interpret traditional texts. My project hopes to address what it is that animates Muslim and Jewish women’s interests in textual studies and how close engagement with religious legal texts might contribute to their development as particularized religious subjects.

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