Comparative family law Plurality and Diversity in Law: Family Forms and Family’s Functions (Intersentia 2019) edited by Jacqueline Heaton and Aida Kemelmajer 24 Mar 202323 Mar 2023 Legal rules play an important role in recognising, protecting, and supporting the family. As the notion of a ‘family’ is constantly changing, the law sometimes lags behind and fails to…
Comparative family law… La vulnérabilité en droit international, européen et comparé, edited by Augustin Boujeka and Marjolaine Roccati 22 Jun 202220 Jun 2022 « Vulnerability in International, European and Comparative law » collects the proceedings of a conference that the Research Centre on European and Comparative Legal Studies (CEJEC) organised at the University of Paris…
Comparative family law The legal recognition of non-conjugal families in the US, Canada and Europe, by Nausica Palazzo 29 Oct 202127 Aug 2021 Families eschewing the paradigm of the traditional marital family are on the rise. These include families which lack a sexual component (so-called non-conjugal couples) or who comprise more than two…
Comparative family law Capturing a global momentum in children’s rights: Incorporating the Convention on the Rights of the Child into national law, by Ursula Kilkelly 6 Oct 20217 Oct 2021 More than 30 years after the adoption by the United Nations of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a legally binding children’s rights treaty, attention has focused…
Comparative family law Transgender birth, birth registration and the rights of the child, by Julia Sloth-Nielsen and Rachel Sloth-Nielsen 7 May 202123 Apr 2021 Our article, Mothers and others: Transgender birth, birth registration and the rights of the child, with a focus on the United Kingdom and South Africa, centred around the case The…
Comparative family law Eastern and Western Perspectives on Surrogacy, Jens M. Scherpe, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Terry Kaan (eds.), Intersentia, 2019 19 Jan 2020 Surrogacy is a complex and topical issue. Defined as an arrangement in which a woman (‘the surrogate mother’) agrees to bear a child and to hand over that child, on…
Comparative constitutional law… Angioletta Sperti, Constitutional Courts, Gay Rights and Sexual Orientation Equality, Oxford, Hart Publishing (hardback, 1st edition, 2017; paperback, 2019). 18 Nov 2019 In the last fifteen years constitutional issues regarding the rights of gays, lesbians and same-sex couples have emerged on a global scale. The pace of recognition of their fundamental rights,…
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