On June 9, the Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy) will host a virtual book launch for Nausica Palazzo's exciting new book. Registration can be done here.
Participants and speakers include Roberto Toniatti (Università di Trento), Marco Ventura (FBK-Center for Religious Studies & Università di Siena), Alexander Schuster (University of Innsbruck & Institute for Italian Law), Katharina Boele-Woelki (Bucerius Law School), Naomi R. Cahn (University of Virginia School of Law), Mathias W. Reimann (University of Michigan Law School), Erez Aloni (University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law), and Nausica Palazzo (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & FBK-Center for Religious Studies) herself!
The summary of the book is as follows:
“This book argues that insufficient recognition of new families is a legal problem that needs fixing in light of recent evolutions in family patterns and normative conceptions of ‘family’. People increasingly invest in relationships falling outside the model of the marital family, such as non-conjugal unions of friends or relatives, polyamorous relationships and various religious-based families. Despite this, Western jurisdictions retain the marital family as the relevant basis for allocating family law benefits, rights and obligations.
Part I of the book illustrates recent evolutions in family patterns and norms, and explores how law can accommodate multiple family grids without legal recognition involving normalisation. Part II focuses on courtroom litigation on the basis that courts nowadays are central avenues of social change. It takes non-conjugal families as a case study and provides an analysis of the most compelling argumentative strategies that non-conjugal families can mobilise to pursue legal recognition in Canada and the United States, and within the systems of the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Union."
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