1st Edition

Rights, Gender and Family Law

Edited By Julie Wallbank, Shazia Choudhry, Jonathan Herring Copyright 2010
302 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

300 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

304 Pages
by Routledge-Cavendish

There has been a widespread resurgence of rights talk in social and legal discourses pertaining to the regulation of family life, as well as an increase in the use of rights in family law cases, in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Rights, Gender and Family Law addresses the implications of these developments - and, in particular, the impact of rights-based approaches upon the idea of... Read more

1. Welfare, Rights, Care and Gender in Family Law, Shazia Choudhry, Jonathan Herring and Julie Wallbank  2. Gender, Rights, Responsibilities and Social Policy, Brid Featherstone  3. Child Protection, Gender and Rights,   4. Rights and Responsibility: Girls and Boys Who Behave Badly, Christine Piper  5. (En)Gendering the Fusion of Rights and Responsibilities in the Law of Contact, Julie Wallbank  6. Fatherhood, Law and Fathers’ Rights: Rethinking the Relationship Between Gender and Welfare, Richard Collier  7. Mandatory Prosecution and Arrest as a Form of Compliance with Due Diligence Duties in Domestic Violence – The Gender Implications, Shazia Choudhry  8. The Limitations of Equality Discourses on the Contours of Intimate Obligations, Lisa Glennon  9. Public Norms and Private Lives: Rights, Fairness and Family Law, Alison Diduck  10. The Identification of ‘Parents’ and ‘Siblings’: New Possibilities under the Reformed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, Caroline Jones  11. Children with Exceptional Needs: Welfare, Rights and Caring Responsibilities, Joanna Bridgeman  12. Relational Autonomy and Family Law, Jonathan Herring  13. Concluding Thoughts: The Enduring Chaos of Family Law, Helen Rhodes

Biography

Julie Wallbank is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds.

Shazia Choudhry is Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London.

Jonathan Herring is a Fellow at Exeter College, Oxford University.