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Family Law, now in its seventh edition, is a modern and teachable casebook, offering comprehensive coverage and a mix of interdisciplinary materials. It compares innovative developments in some states with the reaffirmation of traditional principles in others and does so in the context of a wider focus on family and the state, the role of mediating institutions, and the efficacy of law and particular methods of enforcing the law. The casebook deals with the complexity of family law both in the organization of the chapters—separate units on family contracts, jurisdiction, and practice, for example, can be shortened, skipped, or taught in almost any order—and the diversity of material within each chapter. Each unit combines primary cases with comprehensive notes, supplemented with academic and policy analyses that provide a foundation for evaluation. Detailed problems extend the coverage or apply the commentary to real-world examples.
New to the 7th Edition:
The reversal of Roe v. Wade and constitutional protection for abortion rights
Discussion of the growing class divide in family formation, and of tensions between relatively conservative versus relatively liberal states about the foundations for family law, including how varying forms of families are recognized and defined
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on family law practice
The changing law of parentage with an emphasis on diverging developments across different states on issues such as the recognition of functional parenthood
Benefits for instructors and students:
Comprehensive notes
Current cases
Detailed problems
Flexible, modular organization
Balanced presentation of materials
Coverage of relevant doctrines, such as property, contracts, torts, criminal law, conflict of laws, and constitutional law
Materials on cross-disciplinary topics, including financial principles, genetics/statistics, clinical psychology, social history, policy discussions, counseling, negotiation, ADR, and ethics
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Leslie Harris retired from the University of Oregon School of Law as the Dorothy Kliks Fones Professor in 2018. She taught Family Law and other courses and directed the Oregon Child Advocacy Project, which provided education and assistance to attorneys advocating for the legal interests of children. She has written law review articles about the child welfare system, nontraditional families, family support duties, child custody, and property rights at divorce. She is also the author of a textbook for Children and the Law. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and was one of the first recipients of the law school's Orlando John Hollis Faculty Teaching Award.
June Carbone
Edward A. Smith/Missouri, Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Professor June Carbone joins the Law School faculty in June 2013 as the inaugural holder of the Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology from her position as the Edward A. SmithMissouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC). She is an expert in family law, assisted reproduction, property, and law, medicine and bioethics, and also has taught contracts, remedies, financial institutions, civil procedure, and feminist jurisprudence. Professor Carbone writes prolifically on law and the family, marriage, divorce, and domestic obligations, including changes brought about by the biotechnology revolution. Her most recent book, co-authored with Naomi Cahn, Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture (Oxford U. Press, 2010), explores the effects of diverging values and norms in America.