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Gender Competent Family Law
This chapter discusses the construction of family and family law as central tenets of gender equality projects in law and society. It begins with a...
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Family and Child Law in Chile
This chapter addresses how Chilean family and child law has grappled with the country’s three major social upheavals of the twenty-first century: (i)...
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The Reproduction of Gender Difference and Heteronormativity in Family Law
Family law has been a key site for the transmission of gender norms with regard to adult relationships and the parenting of children. Gendered...
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Migrating Young Unaccompanied Children and the Mobile Commons: Law, Vulnerability, and the Practice of Family Reunification in Sweden
In this article I call for an awareness of the mobile commons– the informal support that exists among migrating people, NGOs, and activists – in...
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Love, Law, Limits and Loopholes: How Diversity Challenges Austrian Family Law
This paper aims to provide insight into how Austrian family law has been affected by the issue of diversity in the last few years. For this purpose,...
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Normativity and Diversity in Family Law Lessons from Comparative Law
With regard to family law, this volume examines claims based on cultural tradition, ethnic background, custom, religious affiliation and sexual...
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International Law in The Era of Blockchain: Law Semiotics
Being built on the ground of mutual effect, facing the current state-isolation, international law is losing its grip on efficiency. This makes some...
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Family Law
This chapter explores the role family law has in promoting good behaviour. It highlights three particular ways it does this. First, by providing a...
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Balancing Cultural Claims and Universal Rights in Finnish Family Law
This chapter addresses cultural and religious diversity in Finnish family law. It reviews legislation, case law and existing research on the...
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Challenging Patriarchism in the Family: Law Reform and Female Protest in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe
The article deals with the struggle of the European women’s movements for equal rights in the family in the nineteenth and twentieth century and the...
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Islamic Family Law
Islamic family law has been in existence in Malaysia for a long time. Its execution has been, for the most part, smooth and progressive. That said,...
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Gender Perspectives in Private Law
This book discusses prominent and controversial gender-related issues across the fields of family law, tort law, labour law, civil procedure law, ADR...
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Diverse Families: A Challenge to Family Law? A Comparative Exercise
This report is based on 14 country reports namely Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Japan, South Africa, Czech Republic, Hungary,...
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The Status of Foreign Fighters’ Family Members Under Counter-Terrorism Law and International Humanitarian Law: Overcoming the Victims/Perpetrators Dichotomy?
Following the military defeatDefeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the States of...
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Law, Emotion and Property Relations
Emotion is inherent in our everyday use and ownership of property. It may drive neighbours to litigate a boundary dispute in the courts, or a...
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How do Law Students Develop Commercial Awareness? Listening to the Student Voice on the Roles of the Law School and the Law Student in Develo** Commercial Awareness
This article provides an authentic, student-centred account of how law students develop their commercial awareness on their journey to graduate...
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Was There a Rule of Law in Early Modern Amsterdam? Mercantile Customary Law as a Test
This contribution intends to shed light on the development of the rule of law, particularly by questioning the existence of such rule of law in early...
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Crafting Prefigurative Law in Turbulent Times: Decertification, DIY Law Reform, and the Dilemmas of Feminist Prototy**
This article explores the challenge of develo** a feminist law reform proposal to decertify sex and gender based on research conducted for the...
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Child Health Empowerment in Family Law of Central and Eastern Europe
The health of the child is an ultimate value for any European state, therefore the first and foremost tasks of the present rule of law are both...