The Family in EU Law

Marja-Liisa Öberg is Associate Professor of EU Law at Lund University. She specialises in EU constitutional and external relations law, the internal and external boundaries of EU integration, and its interdisciplinary dimensions. She is the author of The Boundaries of the EU Internal Market: Participation without Membership (Cambridge University Press 2020). Alina Tryfonidou is Assistant Professor of EU Law and Family Law at the University of Cyprus. She specialises in EU law, family law, and the rights of sexual minorities. She has written extensively on issues concerning EU free movement law and the cross-border legal recognition of same-sex relationships and parenthood.

1. Introduction Alina Tryfonidou and Marja-Liisa Öberg; 2. What is a 'family' in EU law: do EU policies sufficiently address family diversity and its consequences? Alina Tryfonidou; 3. What makes the family special? David Archard; 4. Who counts as a family member? On the importance of 'doing family' in EU law Ségolène Barbou des Places; 5. One big happy 'European family'? An external perspective Marja-Liisa Öberg; 6. The fundament of the fundaments? family rights and the EU charter of fundamental rights Xavier Groussot, Gunnar Thor Pettursson and Alezini Loxa; 7. The Status of family member as a pre-condition of the free movement in the EU Michael Bogdan; 8. Family members and the citizens' rights directive: broadening the scope of the principle of effective judicial protection Albertina Albors-Llorens; 9. All paths lead to equality? same-sex couples and rainbow families under European law Geoffrey Willems; 10. Surrogacy before European courts: the gender of legal fictions Alice Margaria; 11. The abused and neglected child in the EU family: risk, borders and public law child protection Ruth Lamont; 12. The EU family: surviving ideological familism in times of illiberalism Nausica Palazzo; 13. Epilogue to the Family in EU Law – Is there a European Family Law? Jens M. Scherpe.