Making law for families / / edited by Mavis Maclean

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451250603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford [England] ; ; Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-84113-206-3; 1-4725-6224-0; 1-281-04200-5; 9786611042004; 1-84731-318-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: Onati international series in law and society
• Disciplina: 346.01/5
• Soggetti: Domestic relations; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction -- Mavis Maclean -- PART ONE - FRAMING FAMILY LAW: THE NORMATIVE ASPECT -- 2. Uncovering Social Obligations: Family Law and the Responsible Citizen -- John Eekelaar -- 3. Marital Bargaining: Implications for Legal Policy -- M.M. Slaughter -- PART TWO - THE POLITIQUE OF THE LAW-MAKING VENTURE -- Section 1: The Out of Court Agenda -- 4. Making Family Law New? Property and Superannuation Reform in Australia -- John Dewar -- 5. Administrative Divorce in France: A Controversy Over a Reform, that never reached the Statute Book -- Benoit Bastard -- Section 2: The Party Political Agenda -- 6. Regulation of Same-Sex Partnerships from a Spanish Perspective -- Encarna Roca -- 7. "Pro-Family Policy" in Poland in the Nineties -- Malgorzata Fuszara and Beata Laciak -- 8. The Bulgarian Children Act: A Battlefield for Adult Policies or a Genuine Commitment to Children? -- Velina Todorova -- Section 3: The Rights Agenda: Rhetoric and Reality -- 9. Legislating for the Child's Voice: Perspectives from Comparative Ethnography of Proceedings Involving Children -- Anne Griffiths and Randy Francis Kandel -- 10. Family Law-Making and Human Rights in the United Kingdom -- Claire Archbold
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. An underlying concern is to explore to what extent and under what terms will the family endure in the future as a basic unit of social management and control. This book is part of the Oñati International Series in Law and Society