Family law

The interaction between individual rights, which are often seen in secular terms, and religion is becoming an important and complex topic not only for academic study but for practical policy.

Arguing that law must be looked at holistically, this book investigates the 'hidden gender' of the so-called neutral or objective legal principles that structure the law addressing violence against women.

This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash.

This book approaches law as a process embedded in transnational personal, religious, communicative and economic relationships that mediate between international, national and local practices, norms and values.

This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics.

Die Beibehaltung der gemeinsamen Sorge im Falle der elterlichen Trennung oder Scheidung sagt inhaltlich nichts darüber aus, von welchem Elternteil und in wessen Elternhaushalt das Kind dann betreut wird.

Longlisted for the 2022 Inner Temple New Authors Award an impressive book a pleasurable and, at times, compelling read an ambitious project, but skilfully realised The Honourable Mr Justice Hayden, Vice President of the Court of Protection, in the Foreword to the bookForced Marriage Law and Practice is a comprehensive and practical treatment of the law and practice in this field, incorporating criminal, family and Court of Protection elements.

Lawyers' Costs and Fees: Fees and Fixed Costs in Family Proceedings forms part of Bloomsbury Professional's Lawyers' Costs and Fees Series focusing on fees and fixed costs in family proceedings.

This book shows how international criminal courts have paid only limited and inconsistent attention to atrocity crimes affecting children.

Published in 1998.

In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South.

Transparency describes openness, accessibility and public understanding of the family justice system.

This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Are you concerned about falling foul of the pitfalls across the spectrum of modern family proceedings?

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities.

This book examines how developing law and policies in England and Wales simultaneously promote and undermine children''s rights.

EU equality law is multidimensional in being based on different rationales and concepts.

Norms of Violence: Violent Socialization Processes and the Spillover Effect for Youth Crime explores the degree to which violent socialization processes, both at the macro- and micro-levels, are associated with youth criminal behavior.

This book offers a foundational defense of the rights of parents as primary educators of their children.

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London.

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote.

This volume critically analyses Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in India and offers an alternative perspective to look at MPL and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) debate.

This book addresses the pressing challenges presented by the proliferation of international surrogacy arrangements.

This book breaks new theoretical ground by constructing a framework of 'relational vulnerability' through which it analyses the disadvantaged position of those who undertake unpaid caregiving, or 'dependency-work', in the context of the private family.

Should grandparents have rights in relation to their grandchildren?

Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism presents some of the finest essays on social justice, environment, rights and governance.

This book examines how developing law and policies in England and Wales simultaneously promote and undermine children''s rights.

This book explores non-consensual adoption - an area of law which has sparked considerable debate amongst academics, practitioners and the judiciary nationally and internationally.

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.

Marital rape stands at the intersection of the socio-legal issues arising from both domestic violence and sexual assault.

Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice, Second Edition, offers readers an overview of domestic violence and its effects on society and includes helpful measures to curtail its rapid growth and widespread harm.

This book considers Section 21 of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 and its significant impact on previously invisible married women in the 19th century.

Explores values, ideas and structures promoting justice for children and families, under the headings of fairness, protection and autonomy.

This handbook provides authoritative and cutting-edge analyses of various aspects of the rights and lives of disabled children around the world.

Published in 1996, this book presents an innovative method for studying the work of professionals with clients that was applied to an evaluation study of legislation and of lawyers working with clients seeking a divorce.

This book presents research-based family-school intervention programs that target the specific developmental period of preschool through the early elementary years, focusing on promoting positive child transitions into school.

There is long-standing constitutional protection of the right to marry that applies to same-sex couples.

Forensic Mental Health Professionals have entered the fray of child custody litigation in ways that could not have been predicted even a decade ago.

This book investigates the Youth Police Initiative (YPI) intervention with a comprehensive look at its effects in Boston as well as Brownsville, Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has both rich community networks as well as the highest crime rate in New York City.

The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted.

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state.

This volume brings together leading research articles in to the theory, research findings and applications of modern dispute resolution.

This title was first published in 2001.