Family Law and Family Values

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.>

About the author

Mavis Maclean is Co-Founder of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, UK.

Photo courtesy of the University of Oxford: https://www.spi.ox.ac.uk/people/profile/maclean/index.html

Product details

• Authors: Mavis Maclean
• Assisted by: Mavis Maclean (Editor), Mavis (University of Oxford Maclean (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2005
• EAN: 9781841135472
• ISBN: 978-1-84113-547-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Onati International Series in; Onati International Series in Law and Society; Onati International Series in
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law