Family Law

First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England. Two separate legal jurisdictions concerned with fa...

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

How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic res...

When the system fails the parents, how can it protect the children? Welcome to the secretive world of the Family Court. What's ...

Written from an ethnographic perspective, this book investigates the socio-legal aspects of Islamic jurisprudence in Gaza-Palestine. It examines th...

This coursebook explores the law of domestic violence in the United States through interdisciplinary articles, book excerpts, historical cases, stu...

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

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic ...

In the midst of exclamatory headlines, such as Son Sues to Divorce His Mother, Surrogate Mother Refuses to Turn Over Baby and Facebook Divorces on ...