Love's Promises
How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families
Blends memoir and legal cases to show how contracts can create family relationships Most people think of love and contracts as strange bedfellows, or even opposites. In Love's Promises, however, law professor Martha Ertman shows that far from cold and calculating, contracts shape and sustain families. Blending memoir and law, Ertman delves into the legal cases, anecdotes, and history of family law to show that love comes in different packages, each shaped by different contracts and mini-contracts she calls deals. Family law should and often does recognize that variety because legal rules, like relationships, aren't one size fits all. The mos…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8070-3366-1
- EAN: 9780807033661
- Produktnummer: 19350524
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Über den Autor
Martha Ertman is a law professor at the University of Maryland Carey Law School and has taught, written, and spoken about contracts and family law for two decades. She edited Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture and lives in Washington, DC, with her family.
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