Family Law: Marriage & Divorce

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote. The marriage equality referendum saw ...

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries....

China after Mao has undergone vast transformations, including massive rural-to-urban migration, rising divorce rates, and the steady expansion of t...

Explores the reach of the law into our most personal and private romantic lives The Architecture of Desire examines how the law influences our most...

Assumptions about the harmful nature of polygamy have left little room for debate, with monogamy coming to represent a hallmark of civil society, a...

'Refreshing and honest ... this isn't your standard mum memoir' Psychologies MagazineHow to hold it together, even when things are falling apart.La...

Compares todays same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string of victories by...

Over the past thirty years, there has been a dramatic shift in the way the legal system approaches and resolves family disputes. Traditionally, fam...

A critical analysis of marriage law in India from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century In State, Law and Gender, Shreya Roy highlights h...

Saskia Lettmaier explores what is arguably the greatest transformation to have occurred within the Western law of marriage in the last five hundred...

This book focuses on the development of marriage law in Ireland from 1937 to the present day, examining the relevant historical legal background to...