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The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Contemporary Issues in Family Law in England and Wales
- 2 Family Law in the United States: Freedom and Inequality
- 3 Human Rights in the German Family Law Context
- 4 Australian Family Property Law: Current Issues and Challenges
- 5 Towards the Constitutionalization of Family Law in Latin America
- 6 The Nuclear Norm and the Free-Form Family: Irreconcilable Paths in Swedish Family Law?
- 7 South African Family Law and the Chimera of Diversity
- 8 The Post-Divorce Child Support System in China: Past, Present and Future
- 9 The Problem with Personal Law in India
- 10 The Postcolonial Fallacy of ‘Islamic’ Family Law
- Index