News

8 June 2024

The special issue "Who is Family Law for? Exploring Legal Approaches to Family Diversity", edited by Alice Margaria and Dafni Lima, has just been published by the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. This special issue features a collection of papers that explore various aspects of family diversity across different jurisdictions.

Navigating legal protections for cohabiting and economic relationships: can the market/home dichotomy guide us? (Elise Goossens)

‘We are here to put the past behind us’: violence and welfare governmentality in Finnish family law (Sanna Mustasaari)

Functional recognition and polyamory: glitters and hard truths in the O’Neill judgment (Nausica Palazzo)

Queering children’s rights: a critical queer analysis of the UNCRC (Frederique Joosten) 

Registering births: What’s care got to do with it? (Alice Margaria)

Legal parenthood in surrogacy: shifting the focus to the surrogate’s negative intention (Dafni Lima) 

The cross-border legal recognition of parenthood under European law: current law and future prospects (Alina Tryfonidou) 

15 May 2024

Prof. Alice Margaria and Prof. Claire Fenton-Glynn (Monash University) are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the book What is Family? Law and Regulation in a Transdisciplinary Context, with Bristol University Press. Scheduled for release in 2025, this volume will explore the question "what is family?" by drawing on a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives, including law, anthropology, psychology, Christian theology, economics, history, and sociology.

15 March 2024

Prof. Margaria, Agnes Kandlbinder (doctoral researcher, URPP H2R) and Dr. Carole Ammann (ETH) have been awarded a Symposium grant from the Brocher Foundation. They will host an international workshop on "Bringing Men into the Spotlight: Men, Masculinities and Reproduction" on 14–16 May 2025. Confirmed international speakers include Prof. Marcia Inhorn (Yale), Prof. Rene Almeling (Yale), Prof. Lisa Campo-Engelstein (University of Texas), Prof. Abbie Goldberg (Clark University). A detailed program will follow soon.

23 January 2024

Prof. Margaria contributes a chapter titled "Trans(forming) Fatherhood? European Legal Approaches to ‘Seahorse Fatherhood’" (pp. 177 – 194) to the book Changing Families, Changing Family Law in Europe (Insertia). The book, co-edited by Konrad Duden and Denise Wiedemann, was published on 23 January 2024 and is available Open Access.