Philosophical Foundations of Children's and Family Law
Edited by Elizabeth Brake and Lucinda Ferguson
Author Information
Edited by Elizabeth Brake, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University, and Lucinda Ferguson, Associate Professor of Family Law, University of Oxford
Elizabeth Brake is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. She is the author of Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law and editor of After Marriage: Rethinking Marital Relationships (both with Oxford University Press).
Lucinda Ferguson is Associate Professor of Family Law, University of Oxford; Tutorial Fellow in Law, Oriel College, Oxford; and an Associate Member of 1 King's Bench Walk. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on conceptual puzzles within family law, such as the justifiability of financial obligations upon relationship breakdown and arbitration, as well as children's law, particularly debates over children's rights.
Contributors:
Scott Altman is the Virginia S. and Fred H. Bice Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, where he teaches Family Law and Property.
David Archard is Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, and has written extensively in applied ethics, political and moral philosophy, especially on the subject of children's rights, the family, and the state.
Charlotte Bendall is a Lecturer in Law and Socio-legal Studies at the University of Essex.
Brian H. Bix is the Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Minnesota.
Elizabeth Brake is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University.
Ronald C. Den Otter (Political Science, California Polytechnic State University) received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in political science from UCLA.
James G. Dwyer is Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, USA, where he teaches courses in youth law, family law, and law & social justice.
John Eekelaar taught family law at Pembroke College, Oxford from 1965 to 2005, and was its Academic Director from 2005-2009.
Lucinda Ferguson is Associate Professor of Family Law at the University of Oxford; Tutorial Fellow in Law at Oriel College, Oxford; and an Associate Member of 1 King's Bench Walk.
Rosie Harding is Chair in Law and Society at the University of Birmingham and a 2016/17 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow.
Diane Jeske received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992.
Robert Leckey is dean of the Faculty of Law and holds the Samuel Gale Chair in Law at McGill University.
Matthew Lister is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics in the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and senior fellow at the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research.
Colin Macleod is Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Victoria.
Mary Lyndon (Molly) Shanley is Professor of Political Science Emerita on the Margaret Stiles Halleck Chair at Vassar College.
