Family Law Text, Cases, and Materials

by Harris-Short, Sonia; Miles, Joanna; George, Rob

• ISBN13: 9780199664184
• ISBN10: 0199664188
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-08-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Placing key judgments and expert commentary at your fingertips, Family Law: Text, Cases, and Materials presents everything the undergraduate student needs in one volume. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors offer a detailed and authoritative exposition of family law illustrated by materials carefully selected from a wide range of sources.

The book has two principal aims: to provide readers with a thorough understanding of the law relating to the family, and to do so in a way that stimulates critical reflection on that law. Readers are encouraged to consider how and why the law has developed as it has, what policies it is seeking to pursue, whether it achieves the right balance between the rights and interests of individual family members and the wider public interest, and how it operates in practice.


Online Resource Centre

The text is supported by a substantial Online Resource Centre, which features regular updates on the law, further reading suggestions, and revision questions to accompany each chapter.

The website also features supplementary coverage on the following topics:
Introduction to family law
Family relationships between adults
Family property and finances
Domestic violence
Financial and property provision for children
Property and finances when relationships end
Child protection

Author Biography

Sonia Harris-Short, Former Professor of Family Law and Policy, University of Birmingham,Joanna Miles, University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge,Rob George, Lecturer in Law, University College London

Sonia Harris-Short is former Professor of Family Law and Policy, University of Birmingham and the former Head of CEPLER.



Joanna Miles is University Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests within the field include the legal regulation of adult relationships, family property law, and financial remedies on relationship breakdown and death.

Rob George is Lecturer in Law at University College London and a barrister at Harcourt Chambers. His research interests within the field focus on family disputes, with a particular focus on international child law.