Bartosz Biskup, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and member of the Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy, Kraków, Poland

‘If marriage has long been subject to conceptual and institutional evolution, Biskup confronts the normative question head-on: how should the concept change now? By showing how care already anchors many of our intimate practices, he challenges us to rethink the institution so that it supports a broader spectrum of caring relationships, not only romantic dyads. This is a provocative and intellectually serious investigation of an institution whose contours remain far more fluid than some of its defenders admit.'

• Contents1 Legal partiality 2 The received view about the right to marry 3 The ontology of the received view 4 Legal kinds 5 Normative kinds: marriage and civil union 6 Marriage skepticism 7 The right to marry Conclusions to Laws of Caring

Bartosz Biskup, Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and member of the Jagiellonian Center for Law, Language and Philosophy, Kraków, Poland

‘If marriage has long been subject to conceptual and institutional evolution, Biskup confronts the normative question head-on: how should the concept change now? By showing how care already anchors many of our intimate practices, he challenges us to rethink the institution so that it supports a broader spectrum of caring relationships, not only romantic dyads. This is a provocative and intellectually serious investigation of an institution whose contours remain far more fluid than some of its defenders admit.'

• Contents1 Legal partiality 2 The received view about the right to marry 3 The ontology of the received view 4 Legal kinds 5 Normative kinds: marriage and civil union 6 Marriage skepticism 7 The right to marry Conclusions to Laws of Caring