Managing Family Justice in Diverse Societies

Mavis Maclean CBE is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda's College,Oxford. She is former President of the RCSL, a Fellow of the IISL, and Academic Adviser to the Ministry of Justice.John Eekelaar, FBA is Emeritus Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, UK, and Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

• Introduction Mavis Maclean and John Eekelaar Part I: Theories, Ideologies and Strategies1. Law and Community Practices John Eekelaar 2. Religious Norms in Family Law: Implications for Group and Personal Autonomy Farrah Ahmed 3. Shadow Boxing with Community Practices: A Response to Eekelaar Prakash Shah 4. Muslim Dispute Resolution in Britain: Towards a New Framework of Family Law Governance? Samia BanoPart II: Regulating the Interaction between Religious and Secular Norms in Different Jurisdictions5. A 'Deviant' Solution: The Israeli Agunah and the Religious Sanctions LawPascale Fournier, Pascal McDougall and Merissa Lichtsztral 6. The Gendered Benefits and Costs of Legal Pluralism for Muslim Family Law in South Africa Waheeda Amien 7. Assessing the Impact of Legislating for Diversity: The Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 Mavis Maclean 8. Religious Freedom and Protection of the Right to Life in Minors: A Case Study Teresa Picontó-Novales 9. Cultural Norms, National Laws and Human Rights: How do we Balance Respect for Diversity and the Rights of the Vulnerable? The Case of Under Age Marriage of Roma Girls and Boys in Europe Jacek Kurczewski and Malgorzata Fuszara 10. Child Access Services in France: A Universal Service serving Diverse Clients Yasmine Debarge and Benoit Bastard Part III: Non-state Responses to the Interpenetration of Social Norms between Communities11. Accommodating Religious Divorce in the Secular State: A Case Study Analysis Gillian Douglas with Norman Doe, Russell Sandberg, Sophie Gilliat-Ray and Asma Khan 12. How Parties to Sikh Marriages use and are influenced by the Norms of their Religion and Culture when engaging with Mediation Jagbir Jhutti-Johal13. Managing Expectations: Negotiating Succession under Plural Legal Orders in Botswana Anne Griffiths 14. Rights, Women and Human Rights Change in Iran Nazila Ghanea15. Muslim Family Law in Bangladesh: Resistance to Secularisation Farah Deeba Chowdhury Part IV: Reflections16. How much Family Conduct do we need to Regulate through Family Law? Jordi Ribot 17. Variation and Change in Normative Parental Discipline: Persuasion or Legislation? Marjorie Smith and Ann Phoenix

Any one reader is bound to learn a lot from a book which takes in so many jurisdictions, and all readers should particularly respect the parts of this one which attempt an overall, integrative, approach.