Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials - Softcover

Harris-Short, Sonia; Miles, Joanna; George, Rob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199664188 ISBN 13: 9780199664184

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips, Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources.

The book has two principal aims: to provide readers with a thorough understanding of the law relating to the family, and to do so in a way that stimulates critical reflection on that law. Readers are encouraged to consider how and why the law has developed as it has, what policies it is seeking to pursue, whether it achieves the right balance between the rights and interests of individual family members and the wider public interest, and how it operates in practice.
Online Resource Centre

The text is supported by a substantial Online Resource Centre, which features regular updates on the law, further reading suggestions, and revision questions to accompany each chapter.

The website also features supplementary coverage on the following topics:
Introduction to family law
Family relationships between adults
Family property and finances
Domestic violence
Financial and property provision for children
Property and finances when relationships end
Child protection

About this title

About the Author:

Sonia Harris-Short, Former Professor of Family Law and Policy, University of Birmingham,Joanna Miles, University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge,Rob George, Lecturer in Law, University College London

Sonia Harris-Short is former Professor of Family Law and Policy, University of Birmingham and the former Head of CEPLER.
Joanna Miles is University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests within the field include the legal regulation of adult relationships, family property law, and financial remedies on relationship breakdown and death.

Rob George is Lecturer in Law at University College London and a barrister at Harcourt Chambers. His research interests within the field focus on family disputes, with a particular focus on international child law.

Review:

"Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials is a fantastic core text offering a thorough explanation and exploration of the essential areas covered in most family law courses. It offers a perceptive analysis of controversial issues including appropriate contextual material to enable students to
really engage with both law and policy."

--Dr Therese Callus, Associate Professor of Law, University of Reading

"Engaging and appropriately pitched for my undergraduate students. Its clear and accessible content has something to offer students of all abilities."

--Dr Sara Fovargue, Reader in Law, Univerity of Lancaster

"Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials draws extensively on a broad range of sources from statutes and case law to academic commentary and official reports. The authors deftly and seamlessly integrate these sources alongside their own, often critical and challenging, views in such a way that
encourages students to look beyond the mere black letter of the law and consider the effects that these legal provisions have on families in society."

--Philip Bremner, Lecturer, University of Sussex

"A first-rate text with analysis by experts in the field, which usefully highlights the intersection between family law and other areas of law."

--Dr Andy Hayward, Lecturer in Family Law, Durham University

"Chosen by a focus group of my students as their favourite of the family law texts available, this book provides an approachable, comprehensive review of the law. Using extracts from key materials, the authors analyse the effectiveness of the law and its underlying messages, putting the law in
a critical context that is thought-provoking and accessible."

--Polly Morgan, Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia

"An excellent resource which allows students to broaden their reading and consider key debates."

--Dr Sharon Thompson, Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0199664188
• ISBN 13: 9780199664184
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1074