Book section : Introduction
Introduction: the importance of theory to children’s and family law
- Abstract:
- What defines family law? Is it an area of law with clean boundaries and unified distinguishing characteristics, or an untidy grouping of disparate rules and doctrines? What values or principles should guide it—and how could it be improved? Indeed, even the scope of family law is contested. Whilst some law schools and textbooks separate family law from children’s law, this is invariably effected without asking what might be gained or lost from treating them together or separately. Should family law and children’s law be distinguished or treated together?
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- 10.1093/oso/9780198786429.003.0001
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+ Brake, E
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Law
- Sub department:
- Law Faculty
- Role:
- Editor
+ Ferguson, L
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Law
- Sub department:
- Law Faculty
- Role:
- Editor
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- Philosophical Foundations of Children's and Family Law
- Pages:
- 1–38
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-01
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- EISBN:
- 9780191828690
- ISBN:
- 9780198786429
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English
- Subtype:
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Introduction
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- Copyright date:
- 2018
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