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Title

Making law for families / edited by Mavis Maclean.

Publication

Oxford ; Portland : Hart Pub., 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Maclean, Mavis
• Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law.

Description

x, 211 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book analyses the concept of the family in the context of increasing challenges and questions created by multicultural societies in ever more complicated international and transnational and transnational legal contexts. How is the family defined across cultural and national divides? To what extent and under what conditions should any particular state intervene? The collected essays in this volume seek to answer these and other difficult questions through ground empirical research and insightful appreciation of how political systems function in various countries. An underlying concern is to explore to what extent and under what terms will the family endure in the future as a basic unit of social management and control."--Back cover.

Series Statement

Oñati international series in law and society

Uniform Title

Oñati international series in law and society

Subject

Domestic relations > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "Result of a workshop organized by Mavis Maclean and held between May 26 and June 2nd, 1999, at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Onati, Spain"--Foreword.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Uncovering social obligations: family law and the responsible citizen / John Eekelaar -- Marital bargaining: implications for legal policy / M.M. Slaughter -- Making family law new? property and superannuation reform in Australia / John Dewar -- Administrative divorce in France: a controversy over a reform, that never reached the statute book / Benoit Bastard -- Regulation of same-sex partnerships from a Spanish perspective / Encarna Roca -- Pro-family policy in Poland in the nineties / Malgorzata Fuszara and Beata Laciak -- The Bulgarian Children Act: a battlefield for adult policies or a genuine commitment to children? / Velina Todorova -- Legislating for the child's voice: perspectives from comparative ethnography of proceedings involving children / Anne Griffiths and Randy Frances Kandel -- Family law-making and human rights in the United Kingdom / Claire Archbold.

ISBN

• 1841132055 (hardback)
• 1841132063 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 48782982
• SCSB-9938359

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library