Gillian Douglas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4976277 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Douglas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Douglas |
| SIGNATURE | DOUGLAS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7120-6618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Family Matters
John Eekelaar, FBA, is a 'giant of family law', whose unrivalled contribution to the entire breadth of family law scholarship and research has brought many doctrinal, theoretical, empirical and contextual insights to the study of family law and family justice. His world-wide reputation and influence in the field of family law, and the huge body of literature his career of more than 50 years has produced, are celebrated in this collection of essay…
Winner of the SLS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize 2015
Much family law scholarship in recent years has been focused on the recognition of different types of family relationship. Often, the rationale for the grant of rights and duties to new forms of relationship is said to be because the parties have shown commitment, or the same degree of commitment, as those in formally recognised unions, such as marriage. But there has been relatively little consideration of why or how commitment can provide an ad…
Children's Rights and Traditional Values
This book of essays by legal scholars from the United Kingdom, Eire, Israel and Palestine explores the extent to which the recognition of the concept of children’s rights is affected by adherence to religious, cultural and ethnic traditions. The aim is twofold: first, to illuminate the interface between internationally-agreed norms of conduct regarding children and national and cultural determination to preserve traditional approaches; and second…
Enduring Love? Attitudes to Family and Inheritance Law in England and Wales
This paper reports on the findings from a large‐scale study of public attitudes to inheritance law, particularly the rules on intestacy. It argues that far from the assumption that the family' is in terminal decline, people in England and Wales still view their most important relationships, at least for the purposes of inheritance law, as centred on a narrow, nuclear family model. However, there is also widespread acceptance of re‐partnering and …
Cohabitants, Property and the Law
With cohabitation outside marriage becoming increasingly common, the law's response to the problems that arise on separation has become a key issue for public and family policy. This article draws upon the findings of a qualitative empirical study of how property disputes are handled when cohabitants separate. It argues that the unfairness of the current law is best understood as stemming from a failure to recognise the situation that arises as o…
Grandparenting in divorced families
Introduction What do we already know about grandparents? Grandparents' relationships with grandchildren:continuity and change Activities with grandparents Discipline and favouritism The main grandparents Grandparenting in divorced families: rights and policies Communicating in divorced families Taking sides 'Being there': grandparents' financial, emotional and childcare support Excluded grandparents Conclusions: grandparents and family policy
An Introduction To Family Law
Gillian Douglas examines family law in England and Wales within a broad social context. The book explores how the law regulates family life, beginning with a discussion of the main social changes and influences on family law in modern society. It then examines which family relationships are legally recognised and the legal consequences that flow from recognition and non-recognition. Family Law provides a detailed account of how children’s interes…
Children's involvement in their parents' divorce
The paper reports findings from a research study that explored children's experience of divorce. It shows that children experience parental divorce as a crisis in their lives but that they are able to mobilise internal and external resources to regain a new point of balance. In doing so, children demonstrate the degree to which they are active and competent participants in the process of family dissolution. The implications of the data are then c…
Creating a children’s champion for Wales? The Care Standards Act 2000 (Part V) and the Children’s Commissioner for Wales Act 2001
Safeguarding Children's Welfare in Non‐Contentious Divorce
This article considers the working of the current procedure intended to ensure the welfare of children when their parents divorce but are not seeking any orders relating to them. It shows that the process is ineffective in safeguarding children's welfare and is not geared to ensuring that their wishes and feelings are taken into account. It argues that the focus of policy should shift away from assuming that the legal system can handle the proble…
Families Across Frontiers
Comprising 56 of the papers originally presented at the highly successful 8th World Conference of the International Society of Family held in Cardiff, UK, Families Across Frontiers provides a unique and invaluable global insight into how both the international community and individual states are attempting to deal with problems and issues raised by families crossing political and cultural frontiers. The book offers detailed consideration of many …
The Intention to be a Parent and the Making of Mothers
Jackson and Cresswell v lhe Chief Adjudication Oficerfor surrogacy.Reliance on intent would also destroy the prohibitions on private adoption placements which underpin our adoption law.But underlying these restrictions is a deeper assumption.We still require, or at least prefer, some sort of biological link to a child, be it genetic or gestational, because we view children as in some way the physical recreations of their parents.We still refuse t…
The Retreat from Gillick
Cases
Informal Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law, 1750-1989
Family Law under the Thatcher Government
It is being confidently predicted that 'the family' will be a major issue in the next General Election, with the Prime Minister having signalled from the beginning of this year that much needs to be done to reverse the changes in family structure which seem to have become so marked during her time in office.' The Conservatives have long claimed to be the party of the family, and after more than a decade in power, one might expect them to have dev…
Books Reviews
Journal Article BOOKS REVIEWS Get access JUDGES. By DAVID PANNICK. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1987. vii, 255 pp. including notes and index. £12.95 hardback.] Gillian Douglas Gillian Douglas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047823 Published: 01 March 1989
The Family and the State Under the European Convention on Human Rights
The right of individual petition under the European Convention on Human Rights has given rise to a large number of complaints from persons aggrieved at measures taken by signatory States affecting their family life. Examination of such complaints sheds light on the conception of the family in Western European society, and on the extent to which States are regarded as being obliged to uphold the rights of families or of family members to exist and…
Report of the Committee on the Prison Disciplinary System
Dealing With Prisoners' Grievances
Journal Article DEALING WITH PRISONERS' GRIEVANCES Get access GILLIAN DOUGLAS GILLIAN DOUGLAS * LL.B., LL.M, Lecturer-in-Law, University of Bristol currently Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 150–167, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047437 Published: 01 April…
Continuing education in family planning for practicing physicians
Continuing education in family planning for practicing physicians. L S Wan, H Lehfeldt, J J Tsuei, A J Sobrero, and G W DouglasCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.1.32 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Children's Rights and Traditional Values
This book of essays by legal scholars from the United Kingdom, Eire, Israel and Palestine explores the extent to which the recognition of the concept of children’s rights is affected by adherence to religious, cultural and ethnic traditions. The aim is twofold: first, to illuminate the interface between internationally-agreed norms of conduct regarding children and national and cultural determination to preserve traditional approaches; and second…
Enduring Love? Attitudes to Family and Inheritance Law in England and Wales
This paper reports on the findings from a large‐scale study of public attitudes to inheritance law, particularly the rules on intestacy. It argues that far from the assumption that the family' is in terminal decline, people in England and Wales still view their most important relationships, at least for the purposes of inheritance law, as centred on a narrow, nuclear family model. However, there is also widespread acceptance of re‐partnering and …
The Intention to be a Parent and the Making of Mothers
Jackson and Cresswell v lhe Chief Adjudication Oficerfor surrogacy.Reliance on intent would also destroy the prohibitions on private adoption placements which underpin our adoption law.But underlying these restrictions is a deeper assumption.We still require, or at least prefer, some sort of biological link to a child, be it genetic or gestational, because we view children as in some way the physical recreations of their parents.We still refuse t…
Family Law under the Thatcher Government
It is being confidently predicted that 'the family' will be a major issue in the next General Election, with the Prime Minister having signalled from the beginning of this year that much needs to be done to reverse the changes in family structure which seem to have become so marked during her time in office.' The Conservatives have long claimed to be the party of the family, and after more than a decade in power, one might expect them to have dev…
An Introduction To Family Law
Gillian Douglas examines family law in England and Wales within a broad social context. The book explores how the law regulates family life, beginning with a discussion of the main social changes and influences on family law in modern society. It then examines which family relationships are legally recognised and the legal consequences that flow from recognition and non-recognition. Family Law provides a detailed account of how children’s interes…
The Retreat from Gillick
Continuing education in family planning for practicing physicians
Continuing education in family planning for practicing physicians. L S Wan, H Lehfeldt, J J Tsuei, A J Sobrero, and G W DouglasCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.1.32 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Dealing With Prisoners' Grievances
Journal Article DEALING WITH PRISONERS' GRIEVANCES Get access GILLIAN DOUGLAS GILLIAN DOUGLAS * LL.B., LL.M, Lecturer-in-Law, University of Bristol currently Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 24, Issue 2, April 1984, Pages 150–167, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047437 Published: 01 April…
Report of the Committee on the Prison Disciplinary System
The Family and the State Under the European Convention on Human Rights
The right of individual petition under the European Convention on Human Rights has given rise to a large number of complaints from persons aggrieved at measures taken by signatory States affecting their family life. Examination of such complaints sheds light on the conception of the family in Western European society, and on the extent to which States are regarded as being obliged to uphold the rights of families or of family members to exist and…
Books Reviews
Journal Article BOOKS REVIEWS Get access JUDGES. By DAVID PANNICK. [Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1987. vii, 255 pp. including notes and index. £12.95 hardback.] Gillian Douglas Gillian Douglas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 29, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 197–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047823 Published: 01 March 1989
Family Law under the Thatcher Government
It is being confidently predicted that 'the family' will be a major issue in the next General Election, with the Prime Minister having signalled from the beginning of this year that much needs to be done to reverse the changes in family structure which seem to have become so marked during her time in office.' The Conservatives have long claimed to be the party of the family, and after more than a decade in power, one might expect them to have dev…
Cases
Informal Marriage, Cohabitation and the Law, 1750-1989
The Retreat from Gillick
The Intention to be a Parent and the Making of Mothers
Jackson and Cresswell v lhe Chief Adjudication Oficerfor surrogacy.Reliance on intent would also destroy the prohibitions on private adoption placements which underpin our adoption law.But underlying these restrictions is a deeper assumption.We still require, or at least prefer, some sort of biological link to a child, be it genetic or gestational, because we view children as in some way the physical recreations of their parents.We still refuse t…
Families Across Frontiers
Comprising 56 of the papers originally presented at the highly successful 8th World Conference of the International Society of Family held in Cardiff, UK, Families Across Frontiers provides a unique and invaluable global insight into how both the international community and individual states are attempting to deal with problems and issues raised by families crossing political and cultural frontiers. The book offers detailed consideration of many …
Safeguarding Children's Welfare in Non‐Contentious Divorce
This article considers the working of the current procedure intended to ensure the welfare of children when their parents divorce but are not seeking any orders relating to them. It shows that the process is ineffective in safeguarding children's welfare and is not geared to ensuring that their wishes and feelings are taken into account. It argues that the focus of policy should shift away from assuming that the legal system can handle the proble…
Children's involvement in their parents' divorce
The paper reports findings from a research study that explored children's experience of divorce. It shows that children experience parental divorce as a crisis in their lives but that they are able to mobilise internal and external resources to regain a new point of balance. In doing so, children demonstrate the degree to which they are active and competent participants in the process of family dissolution. The implications of the data are then c…
Creating a children’s champion for Wales? The Care Standards Act 2000 (Part V) and the Children’s Commissioner for Wales Act 2001
Grandparenting in divorced families
Introduction What do we already know about grandparents? Grandparents' relationships with grandchildren:continuity and change Activities with grandparents Discipline and favouritism The main grandparents Grandparenting in divorced families: rights and policies Communicating in divorced families Taking sides 'Being there': grandparents' financial, emotional and childcare support Excluded grandparents Conclusions: grandparents and family policy
An Introduction To Family Law
Gillian Douglas examines family law in England and Wales within a broad social context. The book explores how the law regulates family life, beginning with a discussion of the main social changes and influences on family law in modern society. It then examines which family relationships are legally recognised and the legal consequences that flow from recognition and non-recognition. Family Law provides a detailed account of how children’s interes…
Cohabitants, Property and the Law
With cohabitation outside marriage becoming increasingly common, the law's response to the problems that arise on separation has become a key issue for public and family policy. This article draws upon the findings of a qualitative empirical study of how property disputes are handled when cohabitants separate. It argues that the unfairness of the current law is best understood as stemming from a failure to recognise the situation that arises as o…
Enduring Love? Attitudes to Family and Inheritance Law in England and Wales
This paper reports on the findings from a large‐scale study of public attitudes to inheritance law, particularly the rules on intestacy. It argues that far from the assumption that the family' is in terminal decline, people in England and Wales still view their most important relationships, at least for the purposes of inheritance law, as centred on a narrow, nuclear family model. However, there is also widespread acceptance of re‐partnering and …
Winner of the SLS Annual Conference Best Paper Prize 2015
Much family law scholarship in recent years has been focused on the recognition of different types of family relationship. Often, the rationale for the grant of rights and duties to new forms of relationship is said to be because the parties have shown commitment, or the same degree of commitment, as those in formally recognised unions, such as marriage. But there has been relatively little consideration of why or how commitment can provide an ad…
Children's Rights and Traditional Values
This book of essays by legal scholars from the United Kingdom, Eire, Israel and Palestine explores the extent to which the recognition of the concept of children’s rights is affected by adherence to religious, cultural and ethnic traditions. The aim is twofold: first, to illuminate the interface between internationally-agreed norms of conduct regarding children and national and cultural determination to preserve traditional approaches; and second…
Family Matters
John Eekelaar, FBA, is a 'giant of family law', whose unrivalled contribution to the entire breadth of family law scholarship and research has brought many doctrinal, theoretical, empirical and contextual insights to the study of family law and family justice. His world-wide reputation and influence in the field of family law, and the huge body of literature his career of more than 50 years has produced, are celebrated in this collection of essay…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Legal principles and applications (5 works) · Citation (4 works)