RECONCEIVING THE FAMILY
Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution

Edited by Robin Fretwell Wilson
University of Maryland, Baltimore

Cambridge Univeristy Press
July 2006, 568 pages
ISBN-13: 9780521861199
Hardcover, List: $95.00. Special 20% discount until December 31, 2006. Disc: $76.00
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This volume offers comparative perspectives missing in many academic volumes on family law. Unlike other recent family law scholarship, this volume includes the perspectives of U.S. judges and legislators, the groups who will decide whether or not to adopt the American Law Institute's Principles of Family Dissolution law reform proposals. To better inform those decisions, the volume also provides the perspectives of leading family law scholars in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia, jurisdictions that have experimented to varying degrees with the subjects of the Principles’ proposals.

“The Principles consolidate many of the transformative trends in family law since the 1970's and recommend far-reaching changes. This rich collection of essays by so many distinguished judges, practitioners, and scholars, with diverse viewpoints, will surely raise the level of the national conversation about where family law has been, where it is now, and where it ought to be headed.”

--From the Foreword by Mary Ann Glendon,
Learned Hand Professor of Law Harvard Law School

“This is a major contribution to the field of family law as a volume putting the ALI Principles in perspective and providing thoughtful commentary is urgently needed. Without hesitation, I enthusiastically recommend Reconceiving the Family."
--Claire Huntington, Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law

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