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Rethinking Law’s Families and Family Law

Rethinking Law’s Families and Family Law

Author: Frederik Swennen; Elise Goossens; Tine Van Hof
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035338405
Published In: November 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This multi-faceted book combines theoretical, empirical and practical approaches to explore how family law is responding to the ever-changing social dynamics of the family. Bringing together a broad range of experts with innovative perspectives from across the globe, it highlights family law’s current challenges and presents key avenues for future research.

Editors Frederik Swennen, Elise Goossens and Tine Van Hof recognise the multiplicity of family constellations in the 21st century and the subsequent need for family law to recalibrate. Chapter authors explore a variety of subjects, such as nontraditional adult relationships, the role of surrogacy, the division of shared labour between parents, and parental responsibility with respect to children’s rights in the digital age. The book offers invaluable insights into the global academic endeavour to rethink law’s families and family law. Ultimately, the book acknowledges that family law is at a crossroads between the concept of the normative family and the actuality of ‘doing family’.

This book is a vital resource for academics and students in family law, gender law and private international law. Its incisive exploration of family dynamics is also of interest to legal practitioners, social policymakers and students of sociology, social policy, psychology and anthropology.

A window on the paradigm shifts in contemporary family law 1

Frederik Swennen, Elise Goossens and Tine Van Hof

PART I. IN SEARCH OF NEW CALIBRATION POINTS

The place of ‘family’ in family law 21

John Eekelaar

Reviewing the CEFL’s attempts to harmonize European family law 33

Nigel Lowe

From kinship to ‘careship’: in search of a new concept in family law 50

Veerle Vanderhulst

Identity values in conflict between adults and minors 68

Amalia Diurni

The tension between competing rights in a ‘repugnant market’: reproductive self-determination, abortion and