This volume represents key scholarship on the issue of parental rights and responsibilities, selected from a dense forest of literature. The collection offers an overview of the subject and covers topics such as: underlying rationales of who or what is a parent; legal concepts of ’parent’ and their linkage; the legal parent - accommodating complexity; the nature and scope of parental rights; shared parental responsibility; and parental rights and the state.
Author Biography:
Stephen Gilmore is a Senior Lecturer in Law at King's College London, UK. Stephen Gilmore, Barbara Hall, John Lawrence Hill, Gillian Douglas, Tim Bayne, Avery Kolers, Jeffrey Blustein, James G. Dwyer, N.V. Lowe, Andrew Bainham, John Eekelaar, Craig Lind, Tom Hewitt, E. Jackson, Leanne Smith, Kirsty Horsey, Phillip Montague, Colin M. MacLeod, Jonathan Herring, S. Choudhry, H. Fenwick, H. Reece, Belinda Fehlberg, Bruce Smyth, Mavis Maclean, Ceridwen Roberts, Hugh LaFollette, David Archard, Sonia Harris-Short
