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Zusatztext The Changing Family offers a dazzling array of insights to stimulate thought about what the family is and should be, what it might mean in different societies and where it might be going in the future. Informationen zum Autor John Eekelaar is Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford.Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Klappentext A set of essays describing changes in family law in various jurisdictions throughout the world. Zusammenfassung Increasing recognition of different family structures has posed dilemmas for family law and policy throughout the world. The problem often takes the form of conflicts between constitutional law or international human rights norms and between traditional forms of family association and emerging new forms of familial living. In this volume,leading family lawyers chart and analyse how family law in countries with a wide variety of different backgrounds has responded to these problems. Divided into six parts, the book examines the social and demographic context, the dynamics of legal assimilation of changes in social norms, the State and pluralism, the constitutionalisation of family law, social and natural parenthood and the reconciliation of changing norms and changing family forms. In doing this it provides many insights into the differences and similarities between developments in western and non-western countries and the ways in which all systems seek to reconcile official law and ideology with social behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE—THE CHANGING FACE OF FAMILY LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL AND IDEOLOGICAL CHANGE1. Social Change in Europe and its Impact on Family StructuresFranz Rothenbacher (Mannheimer Zentrum für Europaische Sozialforschung, Universitàt Mannheim, Germany)2. The Changing Pattern of Family Structure in Nigeria: Issues, Problems and Strategies for Family SupportOluwatoyin Ipaye (Faculty of Law, Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria)3. Long-term Developments in Family Law in Western Europe: an ExplanationHarry Willekens (Mannheimer Zentrum für Europaische Sozialforschung, Universitàt Mannheim, Germany)4. The New Codification of Russian Family LawOlga Khazova (Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)5. The Development of Japanese Family Law from 1898 to 1997 and its Relationship to Social and Political ChangeYukiko Matsushima (Department of Law, Dokkyo University, Soka City, Japan)6. The Relationship between Social Change and Family Law in KoreaMi-Kyung Cho (College of Law, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea)7. Ireland: the Family and the Law in a Divided LandKerry O’Halloran (Centre for Voluntary Action Studies, School of Health and Community Studies, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, N. Ireland, UK)8. Should and can Family Law influence Social Behaviour?Anders Agell (Professor Emeritus, Juridiska Institut, University of Uppsala, Sweden)9. Family Law in Namibia: the Challenge of Customary and Constitutional LawM. O. Hinz (Faculty of Law, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia)10. Changing Families and Changing Concepts: Reforming the Language of Family LawAndrew Bainham (Christ’s College, Cambridge, UK)PART TWO—THE DYNAMICS OF LEGAL ASSIMILATION OF CHANGES IN SOCIAL NORMS11.The Proposed Abolition of De Facto Unions in Tanzania: A Case of Sailing against the Social CurrentBart Rwezaura (Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China)12.Marriage by Affidavit: Developing Alternative Laws on Cohabitation in KenyaJanet Kabeberi-Macharia and Celestine Nyamu (Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya)13. Why I can’t teach Customary LawJulie E. Stewart (Department of Private Law, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe)14. Reducing Discretion in Family LawJohn Dewar (School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)15. Equality or Inequality within the Fami...
