Do Courts grant women their inheritance claims?
Speaker: Prof. Bina Agarwal with Shruthi Naik
Chair: Alok Prasanna Kumar, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Bengaluru
Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. She is also affiliated to and is ex-Director of the Institute of Economic Growth
Bridging economics and law, Agarwal will highlight how despite inheritance law reform, a wide gender gap persists in property transfers by families. Given this, do women use courts to claim their rights? Who opposes them? What kind of property is disputed? What do judgements reveal in terms of outcomes and language? This pioneering research co-authored with Shruthi Naik of Vidhi probes online data on High court judgements over 2005-2020 to address these questions.
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(Organised in collaboration with Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Bengaluru)
