Family Law - Jonathan Herring

Advantages: Detailed, thorough, good layout
Disadvantages: Expensive

This textbook for family law is aimed at undergraduates and postgraduates - particuarly studying law or social studies. The textbook is incredibly thorough, and includes up-to-date coverage of legal developments such as the law relating to civil partnerships, economic aspects of divorce and domestic violence. The textbook covers most areas relevant to any family law course. The main areas are void and voidable marriages, law relating to transsexuals, ...
...The procedural elements of the family law courts are also discussed, which enables the reader to fully grasp the implications of the workings of the law. Rather than taking a black-letter approach to the law, this textbook also looks at different theoretical approaches to family law - such as feminist, marxist and post-modernist. This ensures that the textbook is set in a specific historic and cultural context. This book is incredibly detailed - ... Read review