Rather than being an exception, judicial permission for minor marriage has become a rule in Morocco. Based on legal analysis and anthropological fieldwork in 2015, I show that the gender of the judge does not significantly contribute to the way the provision on minor marriage is implemented in Moroccan courthouses. Instead, I argue in favour of an approach that is grounded in a relational understanding of law. Both male and female judges were manoeuvring the internal incompatibilities contained within and between state laws, which are the result of external recognition—in other words, the recognition of other normative orders, notably customary law practices. This relational understanding of law, and the ambiguities it naturally results in, amounts to a better understanding of law in action than the distinction between an “ethic of justice” and an “ethic of care,” which highlights gender-specific ways of legal decision-making, which are not supported by the Moroccan case.

在摩洛哥，未成年婚姻的司法许可已成为一个规则，而不是一个例外。根据2015年的法律分析和人类学实地考察，我表明，法官的性别对于摩洛哥法院执行未婚规定的方式没有显着影响。相反，我主张基于对法律的关系理解的方法。男性和女性法官都在操纵州法律内部和国家法律之间的内部不兼容，这是外部认可的结果换而言之，就是承认其他规范性命令，特别是习惯法惯例。对法律的这种关系理解以及其自然产生的歧义，比对“正义伦理”和“谨慎伦理”之间的区分进行了更好的理解，这突出了针对性别的法律决策方式制作，但摩洛哥案例不支持。