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Family Law, Seventh Edition

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Authors
  • Leslie Joan Harris
  • June R. Carbone
  • Rachel Rebouché
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Book length
846 pages
Publication Date
2023-02-17
Edition
Seventh Edition
Teaching Materials
NO
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Preface

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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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About the authors
Leslie Harris
Dorothy Kliks Fones Professor of Law, Emeritus
University of Oregon

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. Smith Missouri 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 has also 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.

Rachel Rebouché

Rachel Rebouché is the Dean and James E. Beasley Professor of Law at the Temple University School of Law. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research and a leading scholar in family law, public health, and reproductive health law. Prior to her appointment as Dean, she served as Interim Dean for one year and was the Associate Dean for Research for four years. Dean Rebouché is the author or editor of seven books, the author of dozens of articles in law reviews and peer-reviewed journals, and a frequent contributor to national publications and media outlets in her areas of expertise.

Dean Rebouché received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a B.A. from Trinity University. Prior to law school, she worked as a researcher for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. After law school, Dean Rebouché clerked for Justice Kate O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where she served as an associate director of adolescent health programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families (formerly, the Women’s Legal Defense Fund) and as a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center.
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Edition
Seventh Edition
Publication date
2023-02-17
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
846
Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
9781543838886
Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
9798886144079
Subject
Family Law
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