Collaborative Research Networks
Organizers
Melissa Breger
The aim of this CRN is to bring together scholars from around the world who specialize or research in the field of family law, broadly conceived. We hope to include scholars from a variety of disciplines, backgrounds, countries of origin and cultures. The scholars strive to answer questions such as: What can we learn when we examine, compare, and contrast socio-legal aspects of families across the globe? What can we learn about the law and its interrelations with society, when we study how families are formed, dissolved, and altered across nations around the globe? What can we learn from cutting-edge topics of research in the vast field of family law and children’s rights law? The CRN will bring together some of the world’s leading family law scholars, as well as bright, emerging scholars, all of whom are endeavoring to answer the above questions and beyond. The CRN has a shared interest in the concept that law reflects normative social attitudes and similarly, social attitudes and norms reflect the law. The goal is to have a common space for all interested scholars to share ideas, thoughts, research and writings.
Interested individuals are invited to submit individual papers to a CRN-16 subcommittee, which will then select papers and organize panels. We will try to have a CRN-16 meeting each year to strategize about ways that family law scholars can collaborate.