Family Lawyers: The Divorce Work of Solicitors

by John Eekelaar, Mavis Maclean

Overview

This book examines the world of family solicitors and will allow a balanced assessment of the role and of the place of the law in this aspect of life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841131863
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/01/2000
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

John Eekelaar is Reader in law and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
Mavis Maclean is co-founder of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Oxford University.

Editorial Reviews

"...fascinating reading" --New Law Journal

"Ultimately, one has to believe, work such as this does have influence beyond academia. Certainly it deserves to have." --Journal of Law and Society

"...a thought-provoking debate on family law at the turn of the twentieth century. The contributions provide an interesting analysis of the main issues" --University of Toronto Law Journal

From the Publisher

In light of the doubt that the future of British family law work has been thrown into the 1996 Family Law Act, legal scholars (Oxford U.) research how family lawyers deal with their divorcing clients to test the assumption that legal intervention is itself harmful to the resolution of family disputes and wastefully expensive. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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