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Law in Society: Reflections on Children, Family, Culture and Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman

Law in Society: Reflections on Children, Family, Culture and Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman

Author: Alison Diduck; Noam Peleg; Helen Reece
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004261488
Published In: August 2015
Format: Hardback
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This collection, written by legal scholars from around the world, offers insights into a variety of topics from children’s rights to criminal law, jurisprudence, medical ethics and more. Its breadth reflects the fact that these are all elements of what can broadly be called ‘law and society’, that enterprise that is interested in law’s place or influence in diffferent aspects of real lives and understands law to be simultaneously symbol, philosophy and action. It also testament to the broad range of vision of Professor Michael Freeman, in whose honour the volume was conceived.

The contributions are divided into categories which reflect his distinguished career and publications, over 85 books and countless articles, including pioneering work on children’s rights, domestic violence, religious law, jurisprudence, law and culture, family law and medicine, ethics and the law, as well as his enduring commitment to interdisciplinarity.

The volune begins with work on law in its philosophical, cultural or symbolic realm (Part I: Law and Stories: Culture, Religion and Philosophy), including its commitment to the normative ideal of ‘rights’ (Part II: Law and Rights), and then offfers work on law as coercive state action (Part III: Law and the Coercive State) and as regulator of personal relationships (Part IV: Law and Personal Living). It continues with reflections on the importance of globalisation, both of law and of ‘doing family’ in personal and public life (Part V: Law and International Living) before closing with two reflections on Michael Freeman’s body of work generally, including one from Michael himself (Part VI: Law and Michael Freeman).

Introduction Alison Diduck, Noam Peleg, and Helen Reece

I Law and Stories: Culture, Religion and Philosophy

Professing Jurisprudence Roger Cotterrell

Laws, Values, Cultures John Eekelaar

Philosophy of Law: Secular and Religious (With Some Reference to Jewish Family Law) Bernard S. Jackson

Rules of Forgiveness and the Role of Narratives in Talmudic Law David Nelken

The People’s Choice: Law in Culture and Society Lawrence M. Friedman

‘A Child’s Mind as a Blank Book’: Myth, Childhood, and the Corporation Anne McGillivray

II Law and Rights ;

Taking Children’s Rights Seriously: The Need for a Multilingual Approach John Tobin

The Jurisprudence of Making Decisions Affecting Children: An Argument to Prefer Duty to Children’s Rights and Welfare Lucinda Ferguson

Michael Freeman’s Contribution to Childhood Rights Mark Henaghan

Michael Freeman’s View of Children’s Rights and Some Ideas Arising from His Views Priscilla Alderson

What if Children had been Involved in Drafting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child?; Laura Lundy, Elizabeth Welty, Beth Blue Swadener, Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, Kylie Smith, and Dympna Devine

Ending Corporal Punishment in Childhood: Advancing Children’s Rights to Dignity and Respectful Treatment Bernadette J. Saunders

III Law and the Coercive State

Refl ections on Michael Freeman’s ‘Law and Order in 1984’ Robert Reiner

Children’s Rights and Children’s Criminal Responsibility Heather Keating

Michael Freeman and Domestic Violence Helen Reece

The Spirit and the Corruption of Cricket Peter Alldridge

Children’s Rights: Preventing the Use of State Care and Preventing Care Proceedings Judith Masson

IV Law and Personal Living

Michael Freeman and the Rights and Wrongs of Resolving Private Law Disputes Felicity Kaganas and Christine Piper

Best Interests of the Child in Relocation: The Work and Views of Lawyers in England and Wales Ghislaine Lanteigne

Surrogacy Law: From Piecemeal Tweaks to Sustained Review and Reform Amel Alghrani, Danielle Griffi ths, and Margaret Brazier

The Right to Responsible Parents? Making Decisions about the Healthcare of Young and Dependent Children Jo Bridgeman

The Abuse of Parents by Children Jonathan Herring

An Unnatural Union? – British Conservatism and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 Andrew Gilbert

V Law and International Living

The Family Law World of Michael Freeman Sanford N. Katz

The Contribution of the South African Constitutional Court to the Jurisprudential Development of the Best Interests of the Child Meda Couzens

Assisted Reproduction and the Child’s Right to Know His or Her Origins: Sweden’s Response to its International Law Obligations and New Challenges raised by Surrogacy Jane Stoll

Sometimes as a Child, Sometimes as an Adult: Children and Access to Justice in Italy Maria Federica Moscati

The Application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Dutch Legal Practice Coby de Graaf

Michael Freeman And International Family Justice The Rt. Hon. Sir Mathew Thorpe

Thirty Years of the Hague Abduction Convention: A Children’s Rights Perspective Rhona Schuz

VI Law and Michael Freeman

Thinking About Children’s Rights Sociologically Michael Freeman

Law and … Michael Freeman: The Scholar, The Man, the Modern Renaissance Humanist Carrie Menkel-Meadow

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