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Mary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in the last decade.

"Glendon is generally acknowledged to be the premier comparative law scholar in the area of family law. This volume, which offers an analytical survey of the changes in family law over the past twenty-five years, will burnish that reputation. Essential reading for anyone interested in evaluating the major changes that occurred in the law of the family. . . . [And] of serious interest to those in the social sciences as well."--James B. Boskey, Law Books in Review

"Poses important questions and supplies rich detail."--Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Texas Law Review

"An impressive scholarly documentation of the legal changes that comprise the development of a conjugally-centered family system."--Debra Friedman, Contemporary Sociology

"She has painted a portrait of the family in which we recognize not only ourselves but also unremembered ideological forefathers. . . . It sends our thoughts out into unexpected adventures."--Inga Markovits, Michigan Law Review

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• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Frequently Cited Works Codes, Statutes, and Collections of Judicial Decisions
• 1 Law, Ideas, and Behavior Introduction Legal and Social Institutions From Custom to Law
• 2 Formation of Legal Marriage Who may Marry Who may Marry Whom Premarital Procedures Formalities for the Solemnization of Marriage The Ideologizing of Freedom to Marry Conclusion
• 3 The Law of the Ongoing Family Legal Images of Family Relations Names Economic Relations
• The Ongoing Family and the Outside World Legal Ideas and Family Life
• 4 Divorce Divorce and Marriage Breakdown England: Divorce Reform Act, 1969
• France: Divorce Reform Law, 1975
• West Germany: Marriage and Family Law Reform, 1976
• Sweden: The Family Law Reform, 1973
• The United States: The "No-Fault" Movement, 1969-1985
• Free Terminability as an Attribute of Marriage
• 5 The Legal Effects of Marriage Termination Marriage Termination by Divorce Marriage Termination by Death
• 6 Informal Family Relations Unions Libres, Old and New
• The Nonmarital Lebensgemeinschaft England: A Cautious Accommodation Sweden: Where All Roads Lead?
• Informal Unions, American Style Comparative Observations
• 7 State, Law, and Family New Lamps for Old State and Individual without Intermediaries Family Ecology What Difference Does Law Make?
• Index

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Mary Ann Glendon was born on October 7, 1938, in Pittsfield, Mass. and graduated from the University of Chicago with both J.D. and Master of Comparative Law degrees. She has worked as a criminal defender, a civil rights attorney, and is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University.

Glendon writes frequently on scholarly matters of the law. In Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, she presents examples of the talk behind laws and rights of citizens, and the actual actions. Hot topics such as flag burning, Indian lands, homosexual acts, and social welfare are covered in-depth in this book, and the difference of opinions versus deeds concerning these topics are discussed as representing a distortion of our true culture and values.

(Bowker Author Biography)