The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law

Offers a comprehensive overview of the key issues facing family law globally, and explores how different countries have tackled them.

Shazia Choudhry (Edited by), Jonathan Herring (Edited by)

9781316618059, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 January 2019

302 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.49 kg

'A fascinating and wide-ranging tour of current developments, debates, and dilemmas in family law around the globe. What an intriguing premise: Ask leading scholars in select jurisdictions to identify the crucial issues and recurrent themes in family law in their respective countries today. The sum is even greater than the parts, as the comparative dimension elevates this volume above more insular examinations of contemporary family law in just one country. Anyone who wants a broad and well-informed understanding of family law in the modern world, including how it operates in practice as well as how it is evolving on the books, should read this volume cover to cover.' James G. Dwyer, College of William and Mary, Virginia

Families and family law have encountered significant challenges in the face of rapid changes in social norms, demographics and political expectations. The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law highlights the key questions and themes that have faced family lawyers across the world. Each chapter is written by internationally renowned academic experts and focuses on which of these themes are most significant to their jurisdictions. In taking this jurisdictional approach, the collection will explore how different countries have tackled these issues. As a result, the collection is aimed at students, practitioners and academics across a variety of disciplines interested in the key issues faced by family law around the world and how they have been addressed.

Introduction
1. Contemporary issues in family law in England and Wales Rosemary Hunter
2. Family law in the United States Theresa Glennon
3. Human rights in the family law context Bettina Heiderhoff
4. Australian family property law: just and equitable' outcomes? Belinda Fehlberg and Lisa Sarmas
5. Towards the constitutionalization of family law in Latin America Nicolás Espejo and Fabiola Lathrop
6. The nuclear norm and the free-form family – irreconcilable paths in Swedish family law? Pernilla Leviner
7. South African family law and the chimera of diversity Anne Louw
8. The post-divorce child support system in China: past, present and future Lei Shi
9. The problem with personal law Farrah Ahmed
10. The post-colonial fallacy of 'Islamic' family law Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.

Subject Areas: Family law [LNM], Comparative law [LAM]