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The International Survey of Family Law 2024

The International Survey of Family Law 2024

Author: Robin Fretwell Wilson; June Carbone
Publisher: Larcier Intersentia Publishers
ISBN: 9781839704345

Previous Edition ISBN: 9781839704017
Published In: January 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The International Society of Family Law is an independent, international, and non-political scholarly association dedicated to the study, research and discussion of family law and related disciplines. The Society’s membership currently includes professors, lecturers, scholars, teachers, and researchers from more than 50 different countries, offering a unique opportunity for networking within a truly international family law community.

The 2024 edition of the International Survey continues the celebration of the International Society of Family Law’s (ISFL) fiftieth anniversary. This second of two Jubilee editions begins with memorials to Professor Sanford Katz, a giant in the field of family law, adds reflections on the Society’s history and contributions to the global development of family, and includes retrospectives on 50 years of family law development on topics such as the marriage equality debate, the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the distinctive evolution of family law in Brazil, given its colonial heritage, China, with its feudal origins, France, Italy, and Portugal, where the national developments have taken place in dialogue with the European Court of Human Rights, Taiwan, in light of the changing status of women, and the United States, in the context of a federal system that sometimes produces convergence and other times divergence among the fifty states.

The Second Jubilee edition also includes updates on recent developments, starting with an assessment of the changing role of gender equality as a source of backlash as well as well as progress, and continuing with chapters on the challenges in Poland in dealing with the large influx of Ukrainian refugees, many of them minors, in Trinidad and Tobago in implementing a right to education for migrant children, and in Serbia in reconciling the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and Serbian law in addressing LGBT rights. The volume ends with chapters on fathers’ rights in the abortion context in South Africa, the US Supreme Court’s failure to develop a comprehensive jurisprudence addressing children rights, and the complexity of evaluating the current state of abortion regulations across the fifty American states.

PART I. MEMORIALS

Sanford N. Katz

John Eekelaar

Remembering Sanford Katz

Ruth Deech

PART II. REFLECTIONS ON 50 YEARS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FAMILY LAW

The Same-Sex Marriage Debates: Past, Present and Future

Nicholas Bala

A Tribute to ISFL

Giselle Câmara Groeninga

Thoughts about the Benefits of Getting Involved with the ISFL

Thomas Oldham

Remembering and Celebrating ISFL at Our Golden Jubilee

Hazel Thompson-Ahye

ISFL Golden Jubilee Conference 2023

Hazel Thompson-Ahye

PART III.

50-YEAR RETROSPECTIVES ON FAMILY LAW

Global Perspectives: Fifty Years of Family Law: Child’s Rights and the Family

Olga A. Khazova-Gurvich

Brazil: Brazilian Family Law in the Last Five Decades: A 180-Degree Change

Juliana Maggi Lima

China: How the Law Protects Chinese Marriages and Families: Evolution, New Developments and Challenges of China’s Family Law

Ran Qiyu

France: Fifty Years of Evolution in French Family Law

Christine Bidaud-Garon, Hugues Fulchiron, Amélie Panet, Richard Vessaud, Clara Delmas, Massilia Amzal, Bastien Baret, Aurore Camuzat, Éric Fongaro, Guillaume Kessler, Guillaume Millerioux, Margot Musson, Marie Pincet, Hugo Jolly, Hugo Bordin-Escharavil

Italy: Fifty Years of Italian Family Law

Federica Giardini

Portugal: Children’s Participation Right in Portugal: An Overview of the Last Fifty Years

Rosa Martins

Taiwan: From Status to Consent: A Feminist Critique of Fifty Years of Family Law Reform in Taiwan

Chao-ju Chen

United States: Fifty Years of Family Law Federalism

June Carbone

PART IV. DEVELOPMENTS IN FAMILY LAW

Global Perspectives: Rethinking the Links between the Changing Family, Law, and Gender

Ursula Basset

Poland: Protection of Minor Ukrainian Citizens: War Refugees Residing in Poland