Naomi Cahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 325820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Cahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Cahn |
| SIGNATURE | CAHN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6651-2469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seventh roundtable on nonmarriage and the law: Introduction
None of the authors have a conflict of interest to disclose. Research data are not shared
Meeting the health, financial and legal challenges of stepfamilies in later life: White coats, green dollars, and special teacups
Longtime stepfamilies and later‐life re‐couplers with adult children from previous relationships are a growing demographic. Legal default assumptions are designed for younger first‐time families, not for aging families or stepfamilies. However, for stepcouples who plan, and who document their wishes, the legal landscape allows for later‐life stepcouples to exercise choice and create individualized alternatives. This article addresses normal chall…
Introduction to the special issue
Sixth roundtable on nonmarriage and the law: Introduction
Retrenchment by Diversion: The New Politics of Parental Rights
For the past century, the Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the importance of parents’ rights to direct their children’s upbringing and education. Yet suddenly the rhetoric of parental rights is being used to ground a broad range of claims on issues such as what can be taught in public schools, when minors can access gender-affirming care, or who will be punished for helping minors travel for abortion care. Why have parental-rights claims sur…
Nonmarital relationships: Introduction
In the United States today, adults live in a variety of nonmarital relationships and situations, ranging from committed partners who cohabit, to people who cohabit with differing levels of commitment,1 to committed partners who live apart.2 An increasing number are single or in families of choice with non-intimate partners, while some intimate partners are in relationships with multiple people at the same time.3 The COVID-19 pandemic has affected…
Introduction: Family court review special issue dynamic pedagogy in the family and juvenile law classroom: Experiential and in‐class exercises
Family Court Review is the leading interdisciplinary academic and research journal for family law professionals. The journal provides comprehensive coverage of family court practice, theory, research, and legal opinion
Justice for the Menopause: A Research Agenda
Menopause is defined by its relationship to menstruation––it is the cessation of menstruation. Medical texts identify menopause as part of the cycle of “decay” associated with female reproductive functions; early menopause is often a dreaded result of various medical treatments and a sign of disfunction. It turns out that only three types of animals experience menopause: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, and humans, while other animals ca…
Symposium introduction
Expanding Nonmarital Relationships
Perspectives on Nonmarital Relationships
Family Court Review is the leading interdisciplinary academic and research journal for family law professionals. The journal provides comprehensive coverage of family court practice, theory, research, and legal opinion
The politics of marriage policy
Marriage and the family mark the fault lines of a growing political and class divide throughout the developed world. With rising inequality, family structure increasingly correlates with class. Two
Gendered Suffering and the Eviction of the Native
The treatment of pregnant women in Palestine offers an important perspective on the interlocking power of gender and race in the context of settler colonialism. However, the gendered violence experienced by pregnant women remains mostly invisible. This chapter shares the voices of pregnant Palestinians to explore how they experience specific forms of gendered violence in a militarized and occupied homeland. It explains the steps taken by Israel t…
Rwanda
Since the end of the genocide and civil war in Rwanda, various measures have been implemented to facilitate women’s political participation. This chapter looks to post-conflict Rwanda as a case study in the successes and limitations in efforts to increase women’s participation in public life. The chapter details the desired outcomes of increased political participation by women before turning to the Rwandan example. It argues that while the incre…
Northern Ireland
Women’s activism played an important role in conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, from the early civil rights activists to the development of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition political party. This chapter follows the history of activism in Northern Ireland, using the trajectory to illustrate how the exclusion of women from formal institutions resulted in a women’s movement that became an alternative means for creating change. It ide…
Women’s Organizations and Peace Initiatives
Women’s peace movements in the post–Cold War era frequently share three common characteristics: a grassroots and local focus due to exclusion from formal peace negotiations; an early and sustained commitment to bridging differences between factions; and the use of international and regional pressures to create success on the local level. This chapter reviews each of these characteristics through case studies. Examples from Sri Lanka, Somalia, and…
Gender and Peacekeeping
This chapter examines three manifestations of gender in peacekeeping: the gender of those serving as peacekeepers; gendered hierarchies within peacekeeping missions; and the gendered discourse used by the United Nations when discussing women peacekeepers. The chapter provides statistics on the numbers of female peacekeepers historically and by assignment. Using the concept of hegemonic masculinity, the chapter explores how protection masculinity …
Complementarity and Convergence?
This chapter analyses the gender dimension of terrorism and counterterrorism efforts. It explores women’s roles as both supporters and preventers of terrorism. It tracks the increasing incorporation of gender in the counterterrorism strategy of the United Nations and the growing focus on the intersections between the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and countering terrorism agendas. The chapter suggests that the WPS Agenda and the countering viol…
Conflict, Displacement, and Refugees
This chapter examines the treatment of gender within the forced migration context. It addresses the gendered harms that occur through displacement and the gendered consequences for individuals, families and communities of displacement. It critiques the international community’s response to entrenched gender problems when responding to the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and addresses the marginalization of gender as a …
Women, Peace Negotiations, and Peace Agreements
Peace agreements, seeking to end conflict and establish a road map for the future, have significant effects on women’s lives, yet historically women have been absent from peace processes. This chapter examines obstacles that often limit women’s involvement in peace negotiations, despite the creation of an international framework that supports the inclusion of women in such processes. The chapter reviews the pragmatic opportunities and challenges …
The Promise and Limits of Indicators on Women, Peace and Security
This chapter focuses on the rapid proliferation of data-driven indicators to track the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 internationally, regionally, and nationally. The chapter presents both the critiques and the strengths of such indicators and summarizes current debates around them. It questions the adequacy of indicators primarily because they value process over results and can be manipulated to produce predetermined results.…
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to address a complex range of challenges, contexts, geographies, and issues that arise for women and men in the context of armed conflict. The Handbook addresses war and peace, humanitarian intervention, countering violence and extremism, the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, sexual violence, criminal acco…
Unlocking the Potential of Cedaw as an Important Accountability Tool for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This chapter explores the application of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to conflict and post-conflict contexts as detailed in General Recommendation 30. It examines the implications of CEDAW and General Recommendation 30 on gender-based violence, the trafficking of women, the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, women’s participation, and women’s access to health, education, emp…
The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families
"No federal law in the United States requires that egg or sperm donors or recipients exchange any information with the offspring that result from the donation. The parents may know the donor's hair color, height, IQ, college, and profession; they may even have heard the donor's voice. But they don't know the donor's name, nor do they have access to their medical history, or other information that might play a key role in a child's development. An…
The Honor Commandment: Law, Religion, and the Challenge of Elder Care
As a religious law, adage, and recipe for generational reciprocity, the “honor commandment” looms large as a societal construct, especially with 76 million baby boomers in the United States approaching old age. This article explores how the honor commandment persists as a normative ethic in the lived practice of elder care and the ways that it is supported by, or at odds with, secular legal imperatives of elder care. Much in the way that the bibl…
Race, Poverty, History, Adoption, and Child Abuse: Connections
Dorothy Roberts, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. New York: Basic Books, 2001. x + 349 pages. $26.00 cloth; $16.50 paper. E. Wayne Carp, ed., Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. $57.50 cloth. Introduction Professor Dorothy Roberts, the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School, has written a compelling book on the inadequacies of the contemporary …
The Uncertain Legal Basis for the New Kinship
This article addresses the legal regime that affects donor-conceived family communities. It shows how these new relationships both reinforce and complicate the social, cultural, and economic meanings of family, where the law fits into all of these relationships, and why-based on the strong interests and emotional connections between members of these new communities-we might consider broader legal protections. It provides a typology of legal appro…
Race, Poverty, History, Adoption, and Child Abuse: Connections
Dorothy Roberts, Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare. New York: Basic Books, 2001. x + 349 pages. $26.00 cloth; $16.50 paper. E. Wayne Carp, ed., Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. $57.50 cloth. Introduction Professor Dorothy Roberts, the Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Northwestern University Law School, has written a compelling book on the inadequacies of the contemporary …
Adoptees, Families, Stepfamilies and Inheritance
Legalizing Gay Marriage, by Michael Mello
Examining the biological bases of family law: Lessons to be learned for the evolutionary analysis of law
This article critically examines the insights that biology (including evolutionary analysis and neuroscience data) offers for understanding the relationship between family law and family stability. The paper initially considers evolutionary analysis, comparative anatomy, and neuroscience data to conclude that while the pair bond appears to be a universal feature of human societies, long-term fidelity is not. The second part of the paper considers…
On the FrontlinesGender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process: Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process
Today, in a variety of post-conflict settings international advocates for women's rights have focused on bringing issues of sexual violence, discrimination and exclusion into peace-making processes. 'On the Frontlines' consider such policies and assess the extent to which they have had success in improving women's lives.
Criminal Justice for Gendered Violence and Beyond
This article focuses on the advancements in and limitations of international criminal law to address the range of harms experienced by women in times of armed conflict. International criminal law is an important tool, but not the only relevant structure or institution that has a role to play in addressing the underlying conditions and causes that produce systematic violence for women. The long-term success of post-conflict reconstruction rests up…
Fully Informed Consent for Prospective Egg Donors
Federal regulations governing egg donation fall into two categories: safety testing and truth in advertising. Neither deals directly with informed consent by, for example, specifying what information donors must be given
The Honor Commandment: Law, Religion, and the Challenge of Elder Care
As a religious law, adage, and recipe for generational reciprocity, the “honor commandment” looms large as a societal construct, especially with 76 million baby boomers in the United States approaching old age. This article explores how the honor commandment persists as a normative ethic in the lived practice of elder care and the ways that it is supported by, or at odds with, secular legal imperatives of elder care. Much in the way that the bibl…
Class, politics, gender and the marriage divide in the United States
In this article we use the idea of the ‘marriage divide’ to describe the transformation of the family to meet the needs of the information economy and the divisions that the transformation has created. In doing so, we emphasise three types of ‘marriage divides’ in the United States: class and racial, ideological and political, and family law/gender ideology
Continuity and Caregiving: Comments on Someday All This Will Be Yours
These comments on Hendrik Hartog's Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age (2012) examine the delivery of elder care in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the resonance with care practices today. The book's stories of how older people arranged for their care transcend time and place, showing the age‐old difficulties of providing care for the elderly
The Uncertain Legal Basis for the New Kinship
This article addresses the legal regime that affects donor-conceived family communities. It shows how these new relationships both reinforce and complicate the social, cultural, and economic meanings of family, where the law fits into all of these relationships, and why-based on the strong interests and emotional connections between members of these new communities-we might consider broader legal protections. It provides a typology of legal appro…
The New Kinship: Constructing Donor-Conceived Families
"No federal law in the United States requires that egg or sperm donors or recipients exchange any information with the offspring that result from the donation. The parents may know the donor's hair color, height, IQ, college, and profession; they may even have heard the donor's voice. But they don't know the donor's name, nor do they have access to their medical history, or other information that might play a key role in a child's development. An…
Gendered Suffering and the Eviction of the Native
The treatment of pregnant women in Palestine offers an important perspective on the interlocking power of gender and race in the context of settler colonialism. However, the gendered violence experienced by pregnant women remains mostly invisible. This chapter shares the voices of pregnant Palestinians to explore how they experience specific forms of gendered violence in a militarized and occupied homeland. It explains the steps taken by Israel t…
Rwanda
Since the end of the genocide and civil war in Rwanda, various measures have been implemented to facilitate women’s political participation. This chapter looks to post-conflict Rwanda as a case study in the successes and limitations in efforts to increase women’s participation in public life. The chapter details the desired outcomes of increased political participation by women before turning to the Rwandan example. It argues that while the incre…
Northern Ireland
Women’s activism played an important role in conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, from the early civil rights activists to the development of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition political party. This chapter follows the history of activism in Northern Ireland, using the trajectory to illustrate how the exclusion of women from formal institutions resulted in a women’s movement that became an alternative means for creating change. It ide…
Women’s Organizations and Peace Initiatives
Women’s peace movements in the post–Cold War era frequently share three common characteristics: a grassroots and local focus due to exclusion from formal peace negotiations; an early and sustained commitment to bridging differences between factions; and the use of international and regional pressures to create success on the local level. This chapter reviews each of these characteristics through case studies. Examples from Sri Lanka, Somalia, and…
Gender and Peacekeeping
This chapter examines three manifestations of gender in peacekeeping: the gender of those serving as peacekeepers; gendered hierarchies within peacekeeping missions; and the gendered discourse used by the United Nations when discussing women peacekeepers. The chapter provides statistics on the numbers of female peacekeepers historically and by assignment. Using the concept of hegemonic masculinity, the chapter explores how protection masculinity …
Complementarity and Convergence?
This chapter analyses the gender dimension of terrorism and counterterrorism efforts. It explores women’s roles as both supporters and preventers of terrorism. It tracks the increasing incorporation of gender in the counterterrorism strategy of the United Nations and the growing focus on the intersections between the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) and countering terrorism agendas. The chapter suggests that the WPS Agenda and the countering viol…
Conflict, Displacement, and Refugees
This chapter examines the treatment of gender within the forced migration context. It addresses the gendered harms that occur through displacement and the gendered consequences for individuals, families and communities of displacement. It critiques the international community’s response to entrenched gender problems when responding to the plight of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and addresses the marginalization of gender as a …
Women, Peace Negotiations, and Peace Agreements
Peace agreements, seeking to end conflict and establish a road map for the future, have significant effects on women’s lives, yet historically women have been absent from peace processes. This chapter examines obstacles that often limit women’s involvement in peace negotiations, despite the creation of an international framework that supports the inclusion of women in such processes. The chapter reviews the pragmatic opportunities and challenges …
The Promise and Limits of Indicators on Women, Peace and Security
This chapter focuses on the rapid proliferation of data-driven indicators to track the implementation of Security Council resolution 1325 internationally, regionally, and nationally. The chapter presents both the critiques and the strengths of such indicators and summarizes current debates around them. It questions the adequacy of indicators primarily because they value process over results and can be manipulated to produce predetermined results.…
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict
The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to address a complex range of challenges, contexts, geographies, and issues that arise for women and men in the context of armed conflict. The Handbook addresses war and peace, humanitarian intervention, countering violence and extremism, the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security Agenda, sexual violence, criminal acco…
Unlocking the Potential of Cedaw as an Important Accountability Tool for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This chapter explores the application of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) to conflict and post-conflict contexts as detailed in General Recommendation 30. It examines the implications of CEDAW and General Recommendation 30 on gender-based violence, the trafficking of women, the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees, women’s participation, and women’s access to health, education, emp…
The politics of marriage policy
Marriage and the family mark the fault lines of a growing political and class divide throughout the developed world. With rising inequality, family structure increasingly correlates with class. Two
Expanding Nonmarital Relationships
Law (24 works) · Political science (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · History (6 works)