Family Law And Family Values

Family Law And Family Values (Onati International Series in Law and Society) The International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati has enabled this group of scholars who share an interest in family law and family policy, but come from a variety of academic disciplines and countries, to meet, to argue and to develop their ideas over almost a decade. We are grateful for this opportunity and proud to present our third volume of essays. This follows on from our first volume, Family Law and Family Policy in the New Europe, published in 1997, which looked at the development of family law in a period of rapid transition in Eastern Europe when norms and values were re-examined and a great deal of legislative activity was taking place. This led us in our second volume, Making Law for Families, published in 2000, to look closely at the law-making process, with which some of us had become closely involved. Looking at this process and at the struggle of law reformers to respond to changing family forms has brought us full circle to look again at the purposes and values underlying family law, and at the relationship between ‘Family Law and Family Values’. We are particularly grateful to Malen Gordoa for her impeccable organisation of the meeting and to Jenny Dix for her editing skills.