In 2015, Law 12 legislated for the establishment of family courts for the first time in the modern history of Kuwait. The reflections and experiences of stakeholders—judges, lawyers, and administrators—surrounding this law are here contextualized from three perspectives: (1) as an institutional means of strengthening Kuwaiti women’s civil rights in marriage and divorce after women were given political rights in 2005; (2) as part of wide-ranging juridical reforms, including the passing of the Law on the Child in 2015, the expansion of the Kuwait Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies’ powers, and the certification of graduates from the Faculty of Sharīʿa as legal advisors in the state apparatus after 2012; and (3) as an avenue for managing religious pluralism in a state where one-third of the citizenry are Shiʿa Muslim.

The sum of these different reforms in the legal sphere are acts of governance that reflect establishing rule-of-law guidelines as a means of centralizing political authority and, by extension, the ruling Āl Ṣubāḥ regime’s grip on power following the 2011 Arab uprisings.

2015年，第12号法律通过立法，在科威特近代史上首次设立了家庭法院。围绕该法律的利益相关者（法官，律师和行政人员）的反思和经验从三个角度进行了背景介绍：（1）作为在2005年赋予妇女政治权利后加强科威特妇女在婚姻和离婚方面的公民权利的一种体制手段；（2）作为广泛的司法改革的一部分，包括在2015年通过《儿童法》，扩大科威特司法和法学研究所的权力，以及证明沙里亚大学法律系毕业生合法2012年之后的国家机构顾问；（3）在三分之一的什叶派穆斯林是什叶派穆斯林的州，作为管理宗教多元化的途径。

在法律领域，这些不同的改革的总和是治理行为，反映了建立法治准则以作为集中政治权威的一种手段，并由此扩展了执政的卢布·乌帕政权在2011年阿拉伯起义后对权力的控制。