Family Law / Gender and the Law

Edited by Michael Rosenthal, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, Belgium & Stefan Thomas, University of Tübingen, Germany This second edition provides a comprehensive treatment of EU merger control law and procedure addressing an extensive body of precedents. It adopts an integrated approach that embraces both the law and economics of merger control, supplemented throughout with practical insights drawn from the authors’ own experience.

UK March 2022 • US April 2022 • 720 pages HB 9781509926152 • £295.00 / $400.00 Beck/Hart World English (excluding Austria/Czech Republic/Germany/Japan/Poland/Switzerland)

Fifty Years of the Divorce Reform Act 1969

Edited by Joanna Miles, University of Cambridge, UK, Daniel Monk, University of London, UK & Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, UK The enactment of the Divorce Reform Act 1969 was a landmark moment. This collection explores the background to the Act and its legal and social influence. Bringing together scholars from law, sociology, history, demography and film, it reflects on changes to divorce law over the last half-century. It then looks at the Act itself. It explores divorce within different groups. To conclude, it reflects on the current Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill. It illuminates not only the Act but a period of societal change.

UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 448 pages HB 9781509947881 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781509947898 • £72.00 / $95.11 ePdf 9781509947904 • £72.00 / $95.11 Hart Publishing

Understanding Sharia Processes

Women's Experiences of Family Disputes

Farrah Ahmed, University of Melbourne, Australia & Ghena Krayem, University of Sydney Law School, Australia

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com

It reflects the ongoing debates and controversies in liberal states on how Sharia law can be recognised within legal processes. This book addresses 2 questions: how liberal legal systems like Australia’s should respond to Sharia processes, and how it can best respond to the needs of Muslim women using these processes. This book offers evidence to inform future policy developments in Australia that will also have implications for other liberal jurisdictions, making a significant contribution to the international response to Sharia processes.

UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 200 pages PB 9781509949489 • £34.99 / $47.95 Previously published in HB 9781509920730 ePub 9781509920747 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781509920754 • £0.00 / $0.00 Hart Publishing

The Fundamental Rights of Companies

EU, US and International Law Compared

Peter J Oliver, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Monckton Chambers, UK This is the first comprehensive examination of the fundamental rights of companies under EU law and the ECHR. It also contains a detailed comparison with the case law of the US Supreme Court and a chapter devoted to international law. Case law covering all the principle substantive rights (eg speech, property, privacy, procedural rights in competition cases) is examined in great depth. The author contends that companies must enjoy some fundamental rights, but highlights the grave consequences of granting them excessive rights. On this pressing but overlooked issue, he proposes a middle course.

UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 208 pages HB 9781841136899 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781509901371 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781509901364 • £76.50 / $100.32 Hart Publishing

A History of Regulating Working Families

Strains, Stereotypes, Strategies and Solutions

Nicole Busby, University of Glasgow, UK & Grace James, University of Reading, UK This book critiques how working families in the UK have been subject to regulation. It has two aims: Firstly, it charts the development of the UK’s law and policy framework by focusing on the post-war era and the growth and decline of the welfare state. Secondly, it suggests an alternative policy approach based on Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory in which the vulnerable subject replaces the liberal subject as the focus of legal intervention. This reorientation enables a more inclusive and cohesive policy approach and has potential to contribute to the reconciliation of the unresolved conflict between paid work and care-giving.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 184 pages PB 9781509943456 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781849465571 ePub 9781509904617 • £54.00 / $71.65 ePdf 9781509904600 • £54.00 / $71.65 Hart Publishing