The gender gap with respect to wealth and property is a chasm. For over 40 years, the leading international treaty body on women’s rights, the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the CEDAW Committee), has been generating jurisprudence interpreting CEDAW’s obligations that states protect the equal rights of women in relationships; family rights, including inheritance; rights to land, adequate housing, financial credit, social benefits, intellectual property, and other economic rights dependent on equal access to justice. This book concludes that CEDAW’s re-engendering of property–although a flawed and evolving work in progress–has the potential to be transformative for the half of the planet who is more likely to be treated as property than to have any.

The Asian Law Institute (ASLI), in collaboration with the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS) at NUS Law convened the inaugural Asian Law Junior Faculty Workshop on 13 June 2019 at the NUS Bukit Timah Campus. The workshop aimed to attract leading research from younger scholars on topics related to Asian jurisdictions, and to provide a platform for them to receive critical feedback on their research from established Asian law scholars.