Rwanda’s laws provide opportunities for gender equity by granting equal inheritance rights to sons and daughters and protection of a surviving spouse’s and children’s rights to property. However, customary systems continue to govern over family and land matters and often discriminate...

Resilience is an increasingly popular term employed in child development and international development discourse. Applied to childhood poverty, poverty over the life course and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, the resilience of boys and girls may be considered as serving as a...

Recent laws, including Mozambique’s Family Law and Land Law, provide important protection and opportunities for equitable property and inheritance rights, including for women in so-called de facto unions (cohabitation without marriage). A key policy debate in the revision of Mozambique’s...

This paper is comprised of a literature review and an annotated bibliography of past and current empirical and theoretical scholarship and policy analysis concerning the de jure and de facto rules and norms of inheritance practices in African societies, particularly with regard to physical...

Backwoods Brewing Company is an experiential exercise that provides a challenging, reality based business situation, requiring students to create a conclusion based on limited information. It is designed primarily for upper-division management students. A tolerance for ambiguity scale is...

In many Sub-Saharan African societies, inheritance is one of the most common means by which physical property is transferred from one generation to another. As such, policy initiatives concerning the intergenerational transmission of poverty (IGT poverty) would do well to attend to how...

Attitudes towards the legal recognition of same-sex relationships are not limited to the simple yes/no vote that takes place on most ballot initiatives. Some individuals vote against same-sex marriage while supporting alternative legal institutions such as civil unions and domestic partnerships....

The status of child custody and adoption rights for GLBTQ individuals varies dramatically by state. This paper seeks to explain some of this variation by examining state Supreme Court decisions regarding the child rearing rights of sexual minorities. I use content analysis to code major court...

Customary law governs the majority of Ghanaians' cases of intestate (no will) inheritance due to customary governance of land and the limited reach of statutory structures.Land in Ghana belongs to lineage groups and therefore cannot be inherited without the approval of customary governance...

Ugandan statutory law contains some progressive as well as constraining elements for the protection of spouses' and children's inheritance rights. Opportunities exist to address limitations through the revision of Uganda's Succession Act, and in allocating budget resources to implement...