Customary marriage (nikāḥ ‘urfī)—non-official married life of a couple—is a new phenomenon increasingly spreading throughout the Arab world. Legal and social consequences of customary marriage have led many socio-jurisprudential scholars to forbid all its varieties. The strategy has, nevertheless, failed to restrain the spread of this type of marriage. In this paper, I argue that one f...

Legitimacy is not just a normative challenge for regulators; it is also a functional one. Without legitimacy, regulators will not be able to motivate others to accept and support their regulatory strategies. Regulators, therefore, have to attempt to create and manage their own legitimacy. Legitimacy management is a key issue in particular for non-state regulators that lack a legally given monop...

Following the theory of civil sphere, it is analyzed how two competing discourses disputed meaning National Women’s Strike against feminicide carried out in Mexico 2020. On one hand, was interpreted as proposal autonomous women to make visible conditions violence them. other an initiative by conservative groups undermine legitimacy government. Each discourse attributed a pure and impure charact...

© 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors CMAJ, October 4, 2011, 183(14) 1575 Decades after Canada’s 33 700 pharmacists began buying computers in the expectation that provincial health systems would connect them with physicians through electronic prescription networks, such information sharing may be inching toward becoming a reality. Although skeptics say the primary rationale for s...