{"id":356906,"date":"2025-08-18T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=356906"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:01:50","slug":"call-for-chapters-personal-laws-and-gender-justice-in-india-by-harishchandra-p-g-college-varanasi-u-p-in-collaboration-with-research-scholar-from-faculty-of-law-university-of-lucknow-submissio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2025\/08\/18\/call-for-chapters-personal-laws-and-gender-justice-in-india-by-harishchandra-p-g-college-varanasi-u-p-in-collaboration-with-research-scholar-from-faculty-of-law-university-of-lucknow-submissio\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Chapters: Personal Laws and Gender Justice in India by Nikhil Kumar, Assistant Professor, Harishchandra P.G. College, Varanasi, U.P. in collaboration with Research Scholar from Faculty of Law, University of Lucknow | Submission by September 4th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About the book<\/h3>\n

The edited volume titled “Personal Laws and Gender Justice in India” seeks to critically examine the interface between India’s personal law systems and the evolving discourse on gender justice in the 21st century. In a country governed by a pluralistic legal framework, personal laws shaped by religious customs, colonial legacies, and partial codifications have long regulated essential aspects of personal life such as marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption, succession, and guardianship. However, these laws often remain uneven in their treatment of women, sexual minorities, and non-binary individuals, raising urgent constitutional, social, and ethical questions. As India stands at a pivotal moment of legal transition in 2025, with several states exploring the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC), and the judiciary actively interpreting personal laws through the lens of constitutional morality, the book aims to provide a timely academic intervention. It seeks to map both historical foundations and contemporary transformations in personal law frameworks with a particular focus on gender justice, intersectionality, and inclusive legal reform. The volume further responds to recent developments such as the Supreme Court’s expanding interpretation of privacy and equality rights, rising awareness of LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and grassroots mobilization demanding reform in patriarchal legal structures. The book is organized into four thematic parts, comprising twenty-eight chapters, each addressing distinct aspects of the law-gender interface. These include constitutional debates and codification efforts, religion-based legal disparities, the rights of emerging identities, technological influences, and comparative international experiences. It provides a platform for multidisciplinary engagement, encouraging contributions that are analytical, empirical, comparative, or reform-oriented. Ultimately, this volume intends to serve as a scholarly and policy-relevant resource for law-makers, researchers, judges, students, and activists, who are engaged in the effort to reconcile religious freedom with gender equality in India’s complex legal landscape. It envisions law not merely as a set of rules, but as a transformative tool for ensuring justice, dignity, and equality in personal relationships across communities.<\/p>\n

Key Focus Areas<\/h3>\n
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    Evolution of personal laws in India and status of gender.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Codification, customary practices, and constitutional values<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    UCC and state-level initiatives (e.g., Uttarakhand)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Gender justice across Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Parsi, and Tribal Laws<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Property, succession, and economic rights of women<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Personal laws and emerging identities: LGBTQIA+ and third gender persons<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Judicial trends and reform recommendations<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Global perspectives and best practices in personal law reform<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Digitalization of personal law litigation and access to justice<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Reproductive autonomy, marital rape, and family violence reforms<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Tentative themes<\/h3>\n