Family Law

The International Survey of Family Law 2024

Edited by Robin Fretwell Wilson · June Carbone
Larcier Intersentia Publishers January 2025

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ISBN-13
9781839704345
Publisher
Larcier Intersentia Publishers
Publication
January 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for 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.

Table of Contents

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
Malgorzata Balwicka-Szczyrba, Anna Sylwestrzak
Serbia (No) Impact of the European Court of Human Rights Case Law on LGBT Rights in Serbia
Melanija Jančić Mihić
South Africa: Equity in Reproduction Decision-Making: Acknowledging and Safeguarding the Reproductive Rights of Fathers in Abortion Matters
Katlego Mashiane
South Africa: Exploring Men’s Reproductive Interests in Abortion Decision-Making in South Africa: A Call for Inclusivity
Seroné Stal
Trinidad and Tobago: Migrant Children and the Inalienable Right to Education: A Case Study on Trinidad and Tobago
Damali Nicholls, Kinda Jacob
United States: The Absence of a Unified Theory in Children’s Fourteenth Amendment Jurisprudence
Catherine Smith, Tanya Washington, Robin Walker Sterling
United States: Abortion after Dobbs: Navigating a Tangle of State Restrictions
Robin Fretwell Wilson
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