Family law

Violence Against Children adopts in its title the exhortation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, "e;Making Human Rights Real,"e; which also represents the leitmotif of the book.

This volume explores the causes and consequences of family inequality in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law provides a comprehensive overview of critical topics in fiduciary law and theory through chapters authored by leading scholars.

'Caring and the Law' considers the law's response to caring.

This book brings together legal scholars engaging with vulnerability theory to explore the implications and challenges for law of understanding vulnerability as generative and a source of connection and development.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is one of the most highly ratified human rights treaties in the world, with 192 states currently signed up to it.

As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peace.

This book examines some of the mechanisms which are currently conceived as affording individual security.

Taking an inter-disciplinary approach which straddles law, anthropology sociology and women's studies, Mir-Hosseini shows how women can turn even the most patriarchal elements of Islamic law to their advantage and achieve their personal marital aims.

Comparative in both approach and framework, Family Law, Sex and Society provides a critical exposition of key areas in family law, exploring their evolution and development within their historical, cultural, political and legal context.

Using a socio-legal framework, this book explores the experiences that birth mothers face in state sanctioned adoption proceedings in the UK.

Family Law in Scotland, 7th edition is a well-established, clear and comprehensive survey of Scots family law and is of practical use to practitioners and students alike.

This book offers a multidisciplinary environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption.

Carl Bulling gehört zu den ersten Juristen, die die Abschaffung jeglicher Eheherrschaft des Mannes über die Frau postuliert haben.

Groups seeking legal equality often take a victory as the end of the line.

A leading expert in Indian family law and one of India's most successful and respected divorce lawyers, Malavika Rajkotia has seen the drama of marriages coming undone at close quartersthe effects of infidelity, jealousy, domestic violence, property disputes and the end of love and compatibility.

A practical guide for legal practitioners to the Civil Partnership Act for same-sex couples.

International child abduction occurs when one parent wrongfully (ie in breach of the parental responsibility of the other parent) takes a child to a country other than that of the child's habitual residence, or wrongfully keeps a child in such country.

The first book to examine the critical area of land law from a feminist perspective, it provides an original and critical analysis of the gendered intersection between law and land; ranging land use and ownership in England and Wales to Botswana, Papua New Guinea and the Muslim world.

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.

This book outlines the constitutional argument in favor of plural marriage in the United States.

The story of Wilhelmina Yazzie and her sons effort to seek an adequate education in New Mexico schools revealed an educational system with poor policy implementation, inadequate funding, and piecemeal educational reform.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the teaching of an eclectic range of family law topics and the unique opportunities and challenges of teaching family law in different jurisdictions from a varied international perspective.

Collaborative practice is a new method of dispute resolution, used mainly in family law matters.

This book investigates the policy implications, discursive ethos and practical realities of plea-based case dispositions in the criminal justice system of four Chinese-speaking jurisdictions, including Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

The phenomena of global ageing and intensive population movements overlap.

International child abduction occurs when one parent wrongfully (ie in breach of the parental responsibility of the other parent) takes a child to a country other than that of the child's habitual residence, or wrongfully keeps a child in such country.

The child asylum seeker poses unique challenges for reception and refugee status determination systems, not least because the child is entitled to have his or her rights as a child respected as a matter of international and regional human rights law.

This book examines the present state of family law in America.

This innovative book applies contemporary and emergent theories of identity formation to timely questions of identity re/formation and development in immigrant families across diverse ethnicities and age groups.

This book is an examination of recent developments in the areas of youth justice and child protection.

This book argues that insufficient recognition of new families is a legal problem that needs fixing in light of recent evolutions in family patterns and normative conceptions of 'family'.

America's foster care system has a noble goal-to care for children that for various reasons can no longer be cared for by their families-but years of inattention and inadequate funding have left many foster youth in a precarious state.

This book focuses on the role and content of the principle of the welfare interests of the child, considers the extent to which the principle has changed following its varied elevation by the introduction of paramountcy and reviews the distinction between welfare interests and rights.

In recent years there has been heightened interest in the clinical and legal management of families in which children resist contact with one parent and become aligned with the other following divorce.

Marriage migration is a controversial and problematic issue in the UK as elsewhere in Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Attachment: Implications and Interventions offers an introduction to therapies produced as a result of the popularity of attachment studies.

It is often asserted that 'A family that prays together, stays together'.

Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements.

Der Start ins GlückWarum eigentlich heiraten?

Relocation cases are disputes between separated parents which arise when one parent proposes to move to a new geographic location with their child and the other parent objects to the proposal.

This book explains the philosophy behind mediation and the step-by-step process of mediation.

Der Konsum von Neuroenhancern zur Überwindung mentaler Leistungsgrenzen steigt an; auch Kinder und Jugendliche sind von dieser Entwicklung betroffen.

The Pocket Lawyer series is designed for members of the public who want 'how to' guidance in situations that would normally require expert advice.

Can you hear the child's voice?

In this volume, Brownson sheds new light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari'a courts from the British Mandate period to the present.