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Philosophical foundations of children's and family law / edited by Elizabeth Brake and Lucinda Ferguson.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: xxiv, 339 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198786425
  • 9780198786429
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 346.015 BRA 23
LOC classification:
  • K670 .P45 2018
Contents:
Table of contents Elizabeth Brake and Lucinda Ferguson: Introduction: The Importance of Theory to Children's and Family Law Part One: Definitions 1: John Eekelaar: Family Law and Legal Theory 2: David Archard: Family and Family Law: Concepts and Norms Part Two: Relationships 3: Elizabeth Brake: Paid and Unpaid Care: Marriage, Equality, and Domestic Workers 4: Ron Den Otter: A Perfectionist Argument for Legal Recognition of Polyamorous Relationships 5: Robert Leckey: Cohabitants, Choice, and the Public Interest 6: Charlotte Bendall and Rosie Harding: Heteronormativity in Dissolution Proceedings: Exploring the Impact of Recourse to Legal Advice in Same Sex Relationship Breakdown 7: Matt Lister: The Rights of Families and Children at the Border Part Three: Rights and Obligations 8: Diane Jeske: Moral and Legal Obligations to Support 'Family' 9: Colin Macleod: Are Children's Rights Important? 10: Scott Altman: Parental Control Rights 11: Lucinda Ferguson: An Argument for Treating Children as a 'Special Case' Part Four: Regulation and Intervention 12: Brian Bix: Private Ordering in Family Law 13: James G Dwyer: Regulating Child Rearing in a Culturally Diverse Society 14: Mary Lyndon Shanley: Reconceptualizing Family Relationships in an Age of Reproductive Technologies
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index.

Table of contents
Elizabeth Brake and Lucinda Ferguson: Introduction: The Importance of Theory to Children's and Family Law
Part One: Definitions
1: John Eekelaar: Family Law and Legal Theory
2: David Archard: Family and Family Law: Concepts and Norms
Part Two: Relationships
3: Elizabeth Brake: Paid and Unpaid Care: Marriage, Equality, and Domestic Workers
4: Ron Den Otter: A Perfectionist Argument for Legal Recognition of Polyamorous Relationships
5: Robert Leckey: Cohabitants, Choice, and the Public Interest
6: Charlotte Bendall and Rosie Harding: Heteronormativity in Dissolution Proceedings: Exploring the Impact of Recourse to Legal Advice in Same Sex Relationship Breakdown
7: Matt Lister: The Rights of Families and Children at the Border
Part Three: Rights and Obligations
8: Diane Jeske: Moral and Legal Obligations to Support 'Family'
9: Colin Macleod: Are Children's Rights Important?
10: Scott Altman: Parental Control Rights
11: Lucinda Ferguson: An Argument for Treating Children as a 'Special Case'
Part Four: Regulation and Intervention
12: Brian Bix: Private Ordering in Family Law
13: James G Dwyer: Regulating Child Rearing in a Culturally Diverse Society
14: Mary Lyndon Shanley: Reconceptualizing Family Relationships in an Age of Reproductive Technologies