Family Law

Family Law and Personal Life, 2nd Edition

By John Eekelaar
Oxford University Press September 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780198814085
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
September 2017
Format
Hardback , 208 pages
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Developments in the law, scholarship, and research since 2006 form a substantial part of the second edition of this book which sets the governance of personal relationships in the context of the exercise of social and personal power.

Its central argument is that this power is counterbalanced by the presence of individual rights. This entails an analysis of the nature and deployment of rights, including human rights, and children's rights. Against that background, the book examines the values of friendship, truth, respect, and responsibility, and how the values of individualism co-exist with those of the community in an open society. It argues that central to these values is respecting the role of intimacy in personal relationships.

In doing this, a variety of issues are examined, including the legal regulation of married and unmarried relationships, same-sex marriage, state supervision over the inception and exercise of parenthood (including surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology), the role of fault and responsibility in divorce law, children's rights and welfare, religion and family rights, the rights of separated partners regarding property and of separated parents regarding their children, and how states should respond to cultural diversity.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Power
Friendship
Truth
Respect
Responsibility
Rights

About the Author

John Eekelaar, Academic Director and Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford

Reviews

"Instructive, entertaining and thought provoking. John Eekelaar always manages to move the debate forward."

"Eekelaar's achievement in providing a succinct but coherent account, drawing on a vast range of scholarship, of such a diverse range of issues, is truly remarkable; and this book will certainly be invaluable in increasing the understanding of what the law should properly seek to do and in stimulating informed discussion...certainly once opened it will prove totally addictive." - Stephen Cretney, Family Law

"Family Law and Personal Life brings together a complex blend of historical, philosophical and political aspects of family law, effectively setting out a framework for thinking about how personal life affects the most profound aspects of our lives and communities." - Law and Politics Review
 
 
 



 
 

 
 
 

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