LAW - 720A Advanced Family Law Theory and Policy Seminar

(2-3 hrs.)

An interdisciplinary examination of selected topics in family law from both theoretical and policy perspectives, with an emphasis on race, class, and sexual orientation. Topics include legal responses to changing family structures and alternative methods of reproduction, state regulation of intimate human relationships, state intrusion into family life through the child abuse and neglect and welfare systems, and the effect of constitutional doctrine on the regulation of the family. Polikoff Spring