Law in Society : Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman.

Intro -- Law in Society: Reflections on Children, Family, Culture and Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Michael Freeman -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I: Law and Stories: Culture, Religion and Philosophy -- Professing Jurisprudence -- Laws, Values, Cultures -- Philosophy of Law: Secular and Religious (With Some Reference to Jewish Family Law) -- Rules of Forgiveness and the Role of Narratives in Talmudic Law -- The People's Choice: Law in Culture and Society -- 'A Child's Mind as a Blank Book': Myth, Childhood, and the Corporation -- II: Law and Rights -- Taking Children's Rights Seriously: The Need for a Multilingual Approach -- The Jurisprudence of Making Decisions Affecting Children: An Argument to Prefer Duty to Children's Rights and Welfare -- Michael Freeman's Contribution to Childhood Rights -- Michael Freeman's View of Children's Rights and Some Ideas Arising from His Views -- What if Children Had Been Involved in Drafting the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child? -- Ending Corporal Punishment in Childhood: Advancing Children's Rights to Dignity and Respectful Treatment -- III: Law and the Coercive State -- Reflections on Michael Freeman's 'Law and Order in 1984' -- Children's Rights and Children's Criminal Responsibility -- Michael Freeman and Domestic Violence -- The Spirit and the Corruption of Cricket -- Children's Rights: Preventing the Use of State Care and Preventing Care Proceedings -- IV: Law and Personal Living -- Michael Freeman and the Rights and Wrongs of Resolving Private Law Disputes -- Best Interests of the Child in Relocation: The Work and Views of Lawyers in England and Wales -- Surrogacy Law: From Piecemeal Tweaks to Sustained Review and Reform -- The Right to Responsible Parents? Making Decisions about the Healthcare of Young and Dependent Children -- The Abuse of Parents by Children.

An Unnatural Union? - British Conservatism and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 -- V: Law and International Living -- The Family Law World of Michael Freeman -- The Contribution of the South African Constitutional Court to the Jurisprudential Development of the Best Interests of the Child -- Assisted Reproduction and the Child's Right to Know His or Her Origins: Sweden's Response to Its International Law Obligations and New Challenges Raised by Surrogacy -- Sometimes as a Child, Sometimes as an Adult: Children and Access to Justice in Italy -- The Application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Dutch Legal Practice -- Michael Freeman and International Family Justice -- Thirty Years of the Hague Abduction Convention: A Children's Rights Perspective -- VI: Law and Michael Freeman -- Thinking about Children's Rights Sociologically -- Law and … Michael Freeman: The Scholar, the Man, the Modern Renaissance Humanist -- About the Contributors.

This collection, written by legal scholars from around the world, offers insights into a variety of topics from children's rights to criminal law, jurisprudence, medical ethics and more. Its breadth reflects the fact that these are all elements of what can broadly be called 'law and society', that enterprise that is interested in law's place or influence in diffferent aspects of real lives and understands law to be simultaneously symbol, philosophy and action. It also testament to the broad range of vision of Professor Michael Freeman, in whose honour the volume was conceived. The contributions are divided into categories which reflect his distinguished career and publications, over 85 books and countless articles, including pioneering work on children's rights, domestic violence, religious law, jurisprudence, law and culture, family law and medicine, ethics and the law, as well as his enduring commitment to interdisciplinarity.

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