Law · Boston College
This course explores how the law regulates the family, which channels core aspects of human existence love, care, and dependency and how such regulation has changed over time. Rather than just focusing on what the law is, it analyses the law from the perspectives of legal theory, public policy, morality, and justice. During the seminar, we will interrogate the theoretical and conceptual basis for legal rules. We will enquire how this regulation relates to different conceptions of what we consider just and equitable. Finally, we will examine policy preferences underlying existing regulation a
