LAW SCHOOLS AND FAMILY COURT REFORM

Woozles: Their Role in Custody Law Reform, Parenting Plans, and Family Court

In the international debates on custody law reform and in individual custody decisions in families and in courts worldwide, social science research is often misused and abused. In this article I describe the process by which data can become distorted in ways that steer policymakers, family court personnel, and parents off course in regard to child custody decisions. I illustrate this process wi...

Family Law: Court Determines Child Conceived

ALTHOUGH the gap between socio-scientific developments and the law may not be altogether undesirable,' the recent case of Gursky v. Gurshy2 is a graphic illustration of the bizarre result which may be reached by the application of traditional legal concepts to modem developments in medicine and sociology. In Gursky a New York supreme court applied the words "out of wedlock" in a narrow sense an...

Baby M: catalyst for family law reform?

Euthanasia and law reform.

In 1983, the Law Reform Commission of Canada published its Report on Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide and Cessation of Treatment,1 following its Working Paper2 and Study Paper3 in the Protection of Life series. The Report is interesting more for its approach than for its recommendations. A close examination of it reveals some fascinating parallels between what I have called "legal law reform", 4 whic...

ترجمه،نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتاب : women family and gender in islamic law

موضوع این تحقیق ترجمه ، نقدوبررسی بخش پایانی کتابی است بانام "women, family and gender in islamic law" [زنان، خانواده وجنسیت درحقوق اسلام]. اصل کتاب به زبان انگلیسی است؛ ما علاوه برترجمه، برآن حاشیه نیززده ایم. ونهایتا نقدوبررسی نیز کرده ایم. درفصل نقدوبررسی پس ازایرادمقدمه، نخستین سخن را به بحثی به نام "تنازع پیش فرض ها" اختصاص دادیم. جان سخن ما دراین بحث این است که ازآنجاکه مسلمانان باغیرمسل...