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  • Directory Of Commonwealth Law Schools 2003-2004by John Hatchard

    Routledge-Cavendish 2002; US$ 95.00

    The Commonwealth Legal Education Association's aim is to foster high standards of legal education and research in Commonwealth countries. This directory provides information on law schools in Commonwealth countries for the period 2003 to 2004. more...

  • The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorceby Antony Dnes; Robert Rowthorn

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 33.00

    The role of 'incentives' is considered in this economic approach to family law. The book discusses the possible adverse consequences emanating from faulty legal design, while demonstrating that good family law should provide incentives for consistent behavior. This will interest lawyers, policy-makers and economists concerned with family law. more...

  • Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnershipsby Robert Wintemute; Mads Andenas

    Hart 2001; US$ 170.40

    Should same-sex couples be permitted to marry? Or should a separate institution of 'registered partnership' or 'civil union' be created for them? Or should the rights and duties of unmarried different-sex couples be extended to them? Should they be allowed to adopt each other's children, or jointly adopt an unrelated child? How should they be treated with regard to employment, social security, pensions, housing, immigration, taxation, inheritance, and divorce? These questions are being debated around the world, as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons increasingly (but not uniformly) insist that they cannot be truly equal without equal treatment for the loving and lasting relationships they form with their partners. more...

  • Family Law and Family Valuesby Mavis Maclean

    Hart 2005; US$ 130.80

    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... more...

  • Making Law for Familiesby Mavis Maclean

    Hart 2000; US$ 156.00

    Making Law for Families is the result of a workshop organized by Mavis Maclean and held between May 26 and June 2,1999, at the international Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) in Onati, Spain. This book analyzes the concept of the family in the context of increasing challenges and questions created by multicultural societies in ever more complicated international 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 grounded empirical research and insightful appreciation of how political systems function in various countries.... more...

  • Family Lawby John Dewar; Stephen Parker

    Hart 2003; US$ 165.60

    This volume contains an edited selection of the papers by contributors from around the world delivered at the 10th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law. The papers cover three broad themes: innovations in processes for resolving and determining family disputes; changing patterns in family and professional practices; and the political and other pressures operating on family law systems and law reform processes. more...

  • Conflict of Laws in a Globalized Worldby Eckart Gottschalk; Ralf Michaels; Giesela Ruhl; Jan von Hein

    Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00

    This book examines the international conflict of laws. more...

  • Conjugal Ritesby H. Brook

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00

    This book explores the regulation of intimate relationships today. It uses fascinating and at times salacious material as well as historical and contemporary legal-political sources. Addressing questions ranging from whether a virgin can be a party to adultery, to whether a man can be a wife each chapter deals with changing themes of conjugality. more...

  • International Judicial Institutionsby Richard J. Goldstone; Adam M. Smith

    Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 25.95

    Written by a former UN Chief Prosecutor and leading international law expert, this book is a much needed, short and accessible introduction to the current debates in international humanitarian law and the history and development of strategies and institutions responsible for implementing international justice. more...

  • Europees conflictenrechtby Jannet A. Pontier

    Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 10.50

    Een complexe geschiedenis in vogelvlucht Rede in verkorte vorm uitgesproken bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar in het Internationaal privaatrecht aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam op vrijdag 17 september 2004 door Jannet A. more...