Family Law and Family Values

Mavis Maclean editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:15th Jun '05

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Each individual experiences obligations arising from personal relationships. These are often hard to fulfil and give rise to tension between the demands of various relationships,between meeting current or future needs, but also between private norms and the demands of a public set of rules. The international contributors to this volume consider the relationship between family law and family values in the way law is framed, the way we are developing the legal context for new kinds of relationships such as cross-household parenting, same-sex partner relationships, and the obligations of adults to elders, and closes with a plea to rethink family law in terms of the functions we want it to perform. Contributors include Masha Antokolskaia, Benoit Bastard, John Eekelaar, Lisa Glennon, Jacek Kurczewski, Jane Lewis, Carol Smart, Velina Todorova and Jean van Houtte.

...this book is a valuable contribution to sociolegal research on family law and a welcome addition to the Onati series. Bryna Bogoch Law & Society Review Vol. 40, Issue 4, Page 974, Dec. 06 ...the book is cross-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional. This provides many positives, including a rich diversity, fertile ground for comparative studies...an extremely informative and thought-provoking collection for the family law academic. The Law Teacher, Vol 40, No 2 Roger Kay 2006

ISBN: 9781841135472

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm

Weight: unknown

256 pages