The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Family Law

Shazia Choudhry is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests lie in the fields of European and UK human rights law, and in particular gender based violence. She has published a number of articles and chapters, as well as two books, European Human Rights and Family Law (2010, with J. Herring) and Rights, Gender and Family Law (2009, with J. Herring and J. Wallbank). In addition to her publications, her work has included her appointment as Specialist Adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into Violence against Women (2014–15) and acting as an expert for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the European Commission and the Council of Europe. Jonathan Herring is Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. He has written nearly 100 books on family law, medical law, criminal law and legal issues surrounding care and old age. His books include Medical Law and Ethics (2018); Family Law (2018); Childhood, Vulnerability and the Law (2018); Vulnerable Adults and the Law (2016), Caring and the Law (2013) Older People in Law and Society (2009); European Human Rights and Family Law (2010, with Shazia Choudhry) and Criminal Law (2018). He has also written for the general public The Woman Who Tickled Too Much (2009) and How to Argue (2012).

'A stimulating collection of scholarly essays, exploring the key current family law issues in a range of jurisdictions and highlighting a variety of common underlying themes influencing contemporary family law systems. An excellent source for comparative thought about family law.' Stephen Gilmore, King's College London

• Introduction; 1. Contemporary issues in family law in England and Wales Rosemary Hunter; 2. Family law in the United States Theresa Glennon; 3. Human rights in the family law context Bettina Heiderhoff; 4. Australian family property law: just and equitable' outcomes? Belinda Fehlberg and Lisa Sarmas; 5. Towards the constitutionalization of family law in Latin America Nicolás Espejo and Fabiola Lathrop; 6. The nuclear norm and the free-form family – irreconcilable paths in Swedish family law? Pernilla Leviner; 7. South African family law and the chimera of diversity Anne Louw; 8. The post-divorce child support system in China: past, present and future Lei Shi; 9. The problem with personal law Farrah Ahmed; 10. The post-colonial fallacy of 'Islamic' family law Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im.