Fall 2021 Course Schedule

Comparative Family Law (Online) (LAW-619A-001)
Isabel Jaramillo Sierra

Meets: 05:00 PM - 06:50 PM (Th)

Enrolled: 20 / Limit: 24

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Description

What are families? How does law shape families? In the last two hundred years, we have come to identify families as the key elements of the social and the depositaries of national culture. This belief produces both a sense of kinship to one’s own families and strangement vis-à-vis what others do to organize sex and reproduction.

This seminar will explore the differences and commonalities in the conceptualization and legal treatment of families in different legal traditions. It will focus on the relationship between blood and family, and sex and family, analyzing how different countries shape family law using those two concepts. In addition to comparing how different countries or systems deal with different issues on family law, the seminar will also explore the role of international courts and international law in the shaping of family law in areas such as marriage and cohabitation, parenting, violence, and property, among others.

Textbooks and Other Materials

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No textbooks are required for the course. We will work with the materials in MyWCL

Reading materials will be posted in MyWCL each week. Reading materials listed with the syllabus are referential only and may be replaced with other materials or more materials may be included during the semester. Please carefully review each week’s folder in MyWCL class’ site.

First Class Readings

  1. Three stories on families (Franklin Scales through Chile; We found our son in the Subway; Muslim mother v. Hindu Guardian).
  2. ALISON DIDUCK, LAW’S FAMILIES (2003), Chapter 2: Two families, 20-30, first par.

Syllabus

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