The Transformation of Family Law: State, Law, and Family in the United States and Western Europe - Softcover

Glendon, Mary Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226299708 ISBN 13: 9780226299709

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1997

Synopsis

Mary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in the last decade.

"Glendon is generally acknowledged to be the premier comparative law scholar in the area of family law. This volume, which offers an analytical survey of the changes in family law over the past twenty-five years, will burnish that reputation. Essential reading for anyone interested in evaluating the major changes that occurred in the law of the family. . . . [And] of serious interest to those in the social sciences as well."—James B. Boskey, Law Books in Review

"Poses important questions and supplies rich detail."—Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Texas Law Review

"An impressive scholarly documentation of the legal changes that comprise the development of a conjugally-centered family system."—Debra Friedman, Contemporary Sociology

"She has painted a portrait of the family in which we recognize not only ourselves but also unremembered ideological forefathers. . . . It sends our thoughts out into unexpected adventures."—Inga Markovits, Michigan Law Review

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This book offers a comparative and historical analysis of the rapid and profound legal changes that took rise in the 1960s in England, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in the last decade. A unique, detailed comparative analysis and summary of the current state of family law, this author's book will serve as a valuable reference for students, scholars, and reformers.

About the Author

Mary Ann Glendon is Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University. She led the Vatican delegation to the Beijing Women's Rights conference in 1995, the first woman ever to lead a Vatican delegation, and has been featured on Bill Moyers's "World of Ideas," She is the author "of Rights Talk; A Nation under Lawyers; Comparative Legal Traditions" (a classic textbook on international law"); Abortion and Divorce in Western Law," winner of the Scribes Book Award; and "The Transformation of Family Law," winner of the Order of the Coif Prize, the legal academy's highest award for scholarship. She lives in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0226299708
• ISBN 13: 9780226299709
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336