Polygamy Law

Polygamy Law is a legal framework within family law systems that regulates the conditions, recognition, and consequences of plural marital unions, distinguishing it from monogamous marriage laws by permitting concurrent spousal relationships under specified statutory or religious provisions.

Publications

2.9K

Citations

111

Authors

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

Polygamy Laws

Parents

Family Law Systems

Publications

Sexual conflict and the polygamy threshold

Nigel Davies · Animal Behaviour · 1989 · 210 citations

Life Sciences, Sexuality Studies, Sociology +14

The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth‐Century America

Sarah Gordon · Journal of Supreme Court History · 2003 · 200 citations

Law, Constitutional Law, Family Law +15

Monogamy's Law: Compulsory Monogamy and Polyamorous Existence

Elizabeth F. Emens · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2004 · 171 citations · Full text

Humanities, Family Law, Sexuality Studies +14

The Sharia, Islamic Family Laws and International Human Rights Law: Examining the Theory and Practice of Polygamy and Talaq

Javaid Rehman · International Journal of Law Policy and the Family · 2007 · 101 citations

Humanities, Family Law, Human Rights Law +17

Noise Over Camouflaged Polygamy, Colonial Morality Taxation, and a Woman-Naming Crisis in Belgian Africa

Nancy Rose Hunt · The Journal of African History · 1991 · 99 citations

Humanities, Gender Studies, History +17

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Authors

111

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Sarah Gordon
Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland, Germany
4 publications · 343 citations
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Elizabeth F. Emens
University of Chicago, United States
2 publications · 210 citations
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Martha M. Ertman
William Carey University, United States
2 publications · 65 citations
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Adrienne D. Davis
Washington University in St. Louis, United States
2 publications · 55 citations
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Susan von Struensee
Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Georgia
2 publications · 36 citations
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Institutions

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Venues

SSRN Electronic Journal
Repository · 9 publications · 359 citations
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Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
NR · 3 publications · 42 citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 3 publications · 183 citations
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Open Scholarship Institutional Repository (Washington University in St. Louis)
Repository · 2 publications · 30 citations
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Journal of Supreme Court History
2 publications · 248 citations
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