[PDF] Family Law Reform Now eBook

Author : Charlotte Bendall
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2024-09-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509962182

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This collection provides a snapshot of big ideas in family law reform. The book asks: If you could change one part of family law, what would it be? This deceptively simple question is answered by 10 family law experts and debated within the volume by expert respondents. The book puts the proposal first, forcing authors (and their respondents) to critically engage with what family law should look like, and where the development of law is needed to address the changing landscape of family life. Globalisation, cultural and religious diversity, the use of technology and changes in societal attitudes towards marriage and parenthood have all had an impact on the continuing evolution of families. As a consequence, the law has some very complex challenges to address in its attempt to regulate the diversity of family life. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars of family law and serves as a pair to Hart Publishing's landmark Criminal Law Reform Now.

Author : Jonathan Herring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1135992584

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This book provides a stimulating, carefully planned introduction to the key issues and debates within family law from some of the leading authorities within their field. It is designed both as a self standing book focusing on the key issues in the subject, and as a supplement to more detailed textbooks on the subject. It is essential reading for anybody studying or practising in the field of family law. Each chapter is concerned with one of the main areas of family law (such as adoption, domestic violence, marrriage and divorce), and covers a range of themes, including the public/private divide, balancing the interests of family members, moral values and family law, cost and the legal system, and the enforcement of family law. The book reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the debates on family law, and the difficult social and political issues which these have raised.

Author : Mary Ann Glendon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,26 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226299708

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Mary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in the last decade. "Glendon is generally acknowledged to be the premier comparative law scholar in the area of family law. This volume, which offers an analytical survey of the changes in family law over the past twenty-five years, will burnish that reputation. Essential reading for anyone interested in evaluating the major changes that occurred in the law of the family. . . . [And] of serious interest to those in the social sciences as well."—James B. Boskey, Law Books in Review "Poses important questions and supplies rich detail."—Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Texas Law Review "An impressive scholarly documentation of the legal changes that comprise the development of a conjugally-centered family system."—Debra Friedman, Contemporary Sociology "She has painted a portrait of the family in which we recognize not only ourselves but also unremembered ideological forefathers. . . . It sends our thoughts out into unexpected adventures."—Inga Markovits, Michigan Law Review

Author : Melissa Bone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509959203

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If you could change one part of the criminal law, what would it be? Following the success of the 1st volume, the same question is put to a new selection of leading academics and practitioners. The first eight chapters of the collection present their responses in the form of legal reform proposals, with topics ranging across criminal law, criminal justice and evidence – including corporate liability, consent to bodily harms, prostitution, domestic abuse, economic crimes, defendant anonymity, appeal court structures and the procedures of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Each chapter is followed by a comment from a different author, providing an additional expert view on each proposal. Finally, the last two chapters broaden the debate to discuss criminal law reform in general, from the challenges of decriminalisation to exploring the systemic dynamics of centralisation, austerity and politicisation. The collection highlights and explores the current reform debates that matter most to legal experts, with each chapter making a positive case for change.

Author : Dörthe Engelcke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 110849661X

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Implementation of Islamic family law varies widely across North Africa and the Middle East, here Dörthe Engelcke explores the reasons for this.