Same Sex Relationships
from 'odious crime' to 'gay marriage'
$79.89
- Hardcover
356 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2006
Summary
Based on the 2005 Oxford Clarendon Lectures in Law, this book deals with the remarkable change in society’s attitude to homosexuality over the last half century. Until 1967 homosexual acts were punished by the criminal law and as recently as 1988 Parliament forbade teachers from suggesting that homosexuality was an acceptable family relationship. In 2005 Parliament passed the Civil Partnership Act, which creates a framework in which same-sex couples can have theirrelationship legally recogni…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199297733 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199297738 |
| Series: | Clarendon Law Lectures |
| Author: | Stephen Cretney |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 356 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2006 |
| Weight: | 675g |
| Dimensions: | 240mm x 160mm x 30mm |
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Critics Review
`Once again we are all indebted to Stephen Cretney…Same Sex Relationships…will be of great interest to all family lawyers who wish to see beyond the minutiae of today’s judgment or tomorrow’s brief…a stimulating and provocative book whch we would all do well to read - and to ponder.‘The Hon Justice Munby, Family Law, October 2006
About The Author
Stephen Cretney
Stephen Cretney is one of the country’s foremost academic lawyers. He also has wide experience of legal practice (he is a Solicitor who practised in the City of London) and of the practical business of law reform (he was a Law Commissioner). He has wide experience of lecturing in this country and abroad, not only to judges and other lawyers, and to students, but also to the general public. His scholarly books have been widely admired for their combination ofdetailed scholarship, deep analysis, readability - and humour. Formerly a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College Oxford he is now an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls. He is a Queen’s Counsel honoris causaand a Fellow of the British Academy.
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