ABSTRACT
This volume gathers influential and cutting-edge scholarship on the international and domestic rights attaching to married couples and other adult relationships. Addressing examples from the European Court of Human Rights, UK, USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, it traces contentious debates about the content of marital rights and responsibilities and whether law should reach beyond marriage, and if so how. Twenty-four essays and a substantial introduction highlight the complexity and contradictions as marital law grapples with gender equality, the aftermath of recognizing gay and lesbian rights, abiding economic inequalities, andexotic issues such as forced marriage and polygamy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|78 pages
Supranational and international rights
chapter 3|8 pages
Rape in Marriage and the European Convention on Human Rights
part II|120 pages
Rights under domestic constitutional and public law
chapter 10|12 pages
Main Section
part III|100 pages
Interpreting ‘private’ rights
part IV|88 pages
Marital rights’ reach
chapter 18|22 pages
Same-sex marriage but not mixed-sex partnerships: should the Civil Partnership Act 2004 be extended to opposite-sex couples?
part V|76 pages
Enforcing rights