Exploring Norms and Family Laws across the Globe

Melissa L. Breger is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School.

Part I: Intimate Relationships: Examining the Laws and Norms of Adult Relationships across the

Globe

Chapter 1: Nonmarital Norms by Naomi Cahn and June Carbone

Chapter 2: New Models of Registered Partnership Reform: Embracing Family Recognition

Beyond Marriage? by Andy Hayward

Chapter 3: Recognition of Islamic Marriages in the UK: Continuity of Marriage Status or Non-

Existent Marriages? by Michael Wells-Greco

Chapter 4: Norms of Muslim Marriage and Divorce: The Evolution of Algerian Family Law

Through the Examples of Matrimonial Guardianship and Consent to Marriage by Nahas

Mahieddin

Part II: Parents: Analyzing Global Norms of Parenting and Their Intersection with Child Rights

Chapter 5: Establishing New Permanent Family Relationships in United States and Nordic Child

Protection Systems by Josh Gupta-Kagan

Chapter 6: Separation and Connectedness: Global Norms of Open v. Closed Adoption by

Malinda Seymore

Chapter 7: Post-Divorce Parental Norms in the Age of Fake News and Discursive Violence:

Israeli Case in a Comparative Context by Daphna Hacker

Chapter 8: Homeschooling by Elizabeth Bartholet

Part III: Children: Situating the Child within the Legal System and Global Norms

Chapter 9: Global Norms in the Context of Corporal Punishment against Children by Melissa L.

Breger, Lucy Sorensen, Victor Asal, and Charmaine N. Willis

Chapter 10: Structural Violence as a Driver of Interpersonal Violence against Children: Missed

Connections in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and English Law by Jessica

Lynn Corsi

Chapter 11: Children’s Voices in Family Law Proceedings in Australia, the United Kingdom,

New Zealand and Canada by Michelle Fernando

Chapter 12: Educational Norms as They Relate to Disabled Children across the Globe by Mark

Henaghan

Part IV: Culture: Comparing the Norms, Themes and Legal Structures of Family Law across the

Globe

Chapter 13: A Child’s Right to Know Their Genetic Origins? A Comparative Analysis of

Approaches to Donor Linking by Fiona Kelly

Chapter 14: Transgender Family Rights Issues and Concerns: A Comparative Legal Analysis of

Asia and Europe by Yeshwant Naik

Chapter 15: The Place of Normative Pluralism in the Family Laws: Family and Marital Union in

Ethiopia by Sileshi Bedasie Hirko

Chapter 16: Imperfect Families: Preserving Family Unity and Communities in South Africa and

the United States by Deseriee Kennedy