Families, Law, and Society
 
NYU Press is proud to announce a new book series that addresses the
social, legal, and political challenges facing the modern family
 
Families, Law, and Society will publish innovative work exploring the
social, legal, and political issues that lie at the center of
conversations about the family in modern life. The 21st-century family
is in dramatic transition, with the roles, needs, and interrelationships
of its members under intense scrutiny and flux. Debates over same sex
versus heterosexual partnerships, cohabitation versus legal marriage,
children conceived biologically versus by artificial reproductive
technology are just a few of the indicators that today’s families are
changing faster than the laws and policies that regulate them.  
 
The series aims to address the wide range of issues that inform and
influence family law in both the private realm (e.g., divorce, adoption,
marriage) and public domain (e.g., welfare, child abuse, juvenile
justice). While interdisciplinary research is encouraged, the series
editor will strive to ensure that all books published in Families, Law,
and Society consider the interrelationship between family and law, and
critically examine the social and cultural changes in the lived
realities of families and the relationship between families and the law.

 
Edited by one of the academy’s leading experts on family law, the
series will serve as a platform for scholars publishing provocative and
timely works in an all-important public policy arena that has thus far
not garnered the attention it merits. 
 
Series Editor: 


Nancy Dowd is the David Levin Chair in Family Law and Director of the
Center on Children and Families at the University of Florida Levin
College of Law. An active scholar in family law, feminist, and critical
theory, she is the author of three books from NYU Press: In Defense of
Single Parent Families, Redefining Fatherhood, and (with Michele Jacobs)
Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader. NYUP will publish
her fourth book, The Man Question: Feminist Jurisprudence,
Masculinities, and the Law, in the fall of 2010.
 
Submission guidelines: Submissions should take the form of a 3-5 page
proposal outlining the intent and scope of the project, its merits in
comparison to existing texts, and the audience it is designed to reach.
You should also include a detailed Table of Contents, 2-3 sample
chapters or articles, and a current copy of your curriculum vitae. 
 
Please send submission materials to:

Nancy E. Dowd
Professor of Law
David H. Levin Chair in Family Law
Director, Center on Children & Families
Box 117626 / Gainesville, Florida 32611
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Sacha M. Coupet, Ph.D., J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law & Director of Research Civitas ChildLaw
Center
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
(312) 915-7134
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