Elizabeth S Scott and Robert E Scott, From Contract to Status: Collaboration and the Evolution of Novel Family Relationships, 115 Columbia Law Review 293 (2015). Family law scholarship features a significant amount of normative work arguing for greater recognition of diverse family forms. Careful descriptive work analyzing how such families gain recognition is far less common. Elizabeth Scott and Robert Scott’s insightful new article, From Contract to Status: Collaboration and the Evolution of Novel Family Relationships, forthcoming in the Columbia Law Review, critically mines this second vein. Scott and Scott shift the focus away from the question of why we should provide greater recognition to more family forms and toward the question of how the state comes to accept and recognize novel family arrangements …” (more)
[Douglas NeJaime, JOTWELL, 1 September]
First posted 2015-09-02 12:12:32
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