Cross Currents
Family Law and Policy in the US and England
Mavis Maclean author Sanford N Katz author John Eekelaar author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
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This unique contribution to comparative family law brings together dedicated essays on a comprehensive range of issues in family law in the United States and England showing how they stand at the beginning of the new century and how they reached there. This provides an unparalleled opportunity to examine how family law has reacted to a period of change in family life widely held to be without precedent. The legal analyses are set within critical accounts of wider social and family policy and against a fully explored demographic background provided by leading scholars in these areas. Readers will be challenged to understand the nature of family law and its possible future direction.
... offers a timely appraisal of family law and family policy at the start of the new millennium. ... The full sweep of family law gets 'state of the art' treatment ... The book is an important collection of its individual chapters, each written by a recognised scholar in its respective area, as well as a 'state of the art' statement of family law and policy at the start of the twenty-first century. ... the book will appeal to a wide constituency: its chapters are accessibly written for the non-specialist, yet contain original insights for the specialist. It deserves to become a standard reference for students and teachers of family law, social policy, sociology, and social work, and is a worthy successor to the volume that inspired it. * Social Policy *
This extensive and valuable book ... may well stand as a definitive record of the progress of family law in the second half of the twentieth century, at least as far as the two chosen countries are concerned. ... The book is a mine of information and ideas, well worth delving into. * Child and Family Law Quarterly, Vol 13, No 3, 2001 *
This book is a substantial collection of essays > considering the development and present state of family law in England and > Wales and the United States. The table of contributors is a most impressive > list, containing many of the leading academic family lawyers on each side of > the Atlantic. It is therefore not surprising that the book is excellent. > ... the book is an extremely valuable resource that anyone interested in > family law should acquire and will greatly enjoy. * Law Quarterly Review, > 1 Oct 2001 *
this is an excellent reference work, of great value to anyone who wants an introduction to Family Law in either the United States or England. * Modern Law Review, 1 March 2002 *
stimulating collection of essays * Judge David Pearl, Family Law May 2001 *
Cross Currents is set deservedly to become one of the standard texts on family law on both sides of the Atlantic for the next generation of students and scholars. * Judge David Pearl, Family Law May 2001 *
ISBN: 9780198268208
Dimensions: 242mm x 163mm x 40mm
Weight: 1123g
680 pages