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By Michael Freeman
September 28, 2008
Domestic violence - domestic hooliganism it has been called - is one of the cancers of our age. This volume offers a challenging selection of materials as a picture of a multi-faceted problem. The issues embraced range from criminal and civil law responses and the value of mediation, to the impact ...
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By Alison Diduck
September 28, 2008
The law has long been interested in marriage and conjugal cohabitation and in the range of public and private obligations that accrue from intimate living. This collection of classic articles explores that legal interest, while at the same time locating marriage and cohabitation within a range of ...
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By Andrew Bainham
August 28, 2008
This volume brings together some of the best journal articles of the last twenty years which deal with various aspects of the relationship between parents and children. Adopting an inter-disciplinary and comparative approach, the book reproduces articles from a variety of journals in law and the ...
By Jane Murphy, Jana Singer
October 28, 2008
Over the past two decades, virtually all areas of family law have undergone major doctrinal and theoretical changes - from the definition of marriage, to the financial and parenting consequences of divorce, to the legal construction of parenthood. An equally important set of changes has transformed...
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By Ann Laquer Estin
September 28, 2008
With the accelerating movement of individuals and families across national borders, the intersections of cultural and legal frameworks have become increasingly complex. The Multi-Cultural Family collects essays from around the world on the challenges of legal pluralism, minority religious ...
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By Michael Freeman
November 12, 2008
The Family, Law and Society series brings together, in a five volume collection, the most significant articles and papers in key aspects of family law from an international perspective. Over the past two decades virtually all areas of family law have undergone major doctrinal and theoretical ...