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House Rules takes a hard look at the law and norms governing family life, compelling readers to rethink entrenched inequalities in familial relationships and proposing ways to approach legislative solutions.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction /
Erez Aloni and Régine TremblayPart 1: Locating Norms1 The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families /
Allison Anna Tait2 Identity Choices at the Intersections: The Inequality of Cross-Border Motherhood and What to Do about It /
Chao-ju ChenPart 2: Law's Norms3 Family Law as Expression: Financial Relief in the English Courts /
Alison Diduck4 The Complex Interrelationships of Financial and Child-Related Issues in Post-separation Disputes: Gender Matters /
Rachel TreloarPart 3: Norms' Stickiness5 Familial Ideology, Privatization, and Care Arrangements for Children in the Family Law and Child Protection Systems /
Wanda Wiegers6 Family, Gender, and the Public/Private Divide in the United Kingdom's
Human Rights Act 1998 /
Nicola BarkerPart 4: Measuring Norms7 One Myth Leads to Another: From Ignorance of the Laws to the Presumption of Informed Choice among de Facto Spouses /
Hélène Belleau8 "WAR" and Other Reasons People Move In Together: Analyzing Cohabitating Relationship Progressions in British Columbia /
Erez Aloni and Adam Vanzella-YangPart 5: Reforming Norms9 Measuring Success of (Family) Law Reforms /
Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay10 Abolishing Family Law (as We Know It) /
Brenda CossmanIndex
About the author
Erez Aloni is an associate professor in the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. His work has appeared in publications such as the
UCLA Law Review, the
Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the
National Taiwan University Law Review, the
Washington Law Review, and the
Oxford Encyclopedia of LGBT Politics and Policy. With Régine Tremblay, he is the faculty coeditor of the
Canadian Journal of Family Law.
Régine Tremblay is an assistant professor and the director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Quebec Bar and her work has appeared in English and French in publications such as the
Supreme Court Law Review, the
Canadian Journal of Family Law, and the
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. She coauthored the second edition of the
Private Law Dictionary and Bilingual Lexicon - Family/Dictionnaire de droit privé et lexiques bilingues - Les familles and coedited
Les intraduisibles en droit civil. With Erez Aloni, she is faculty coeditor of the
Canadian Journal of Family Law. Contributors: Nicola Barker, Hélène Belleau, Chao-Ju Chen, Brenda Cossman, Alison Diduck, Julianna Ivanyi, Allison Anna Tait, Rachel Treloar, Adam Vanzella-Yang, Wanda Wiegers
