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CRITICAL DIRECTIONS IN COMPARATIVE FAMILY LAW (FALL 2010)
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 VOLUME 58 NUMBER 4
FALL 2010
(ISSN 0002-919x)

The American Journal of

C0MPAMI1VE
LAW Editor-in-Chief:
Mathias W. Reimann
Published by The American Society of Comparative Law

CRITICAL DIRECTIONS IN COMPARATIVE FAMILY LAW

Special Editor: Janet Halley

Critical Directions in Comparative
Family Law Halley and Rittich
Family Law Exceptionalism Nicola

Savigny's Family/Patrimony Distinction Kennedy

Canonical Family Law Treatises of Latin America Jaramillo

Marrying Family Law to the Nation Tsoukala

construction of gender in arab societies Odeh

Distributive Effects of Familial Care Policies Shamir

Migrant Domestic Workers in Egypt Thomas
Family and Family Law in Development Rittich
Volume 58 Index

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 The American Journal of
COMPARATIVE LAW
VOLUME LVIII FALL 2010 NUMBER 4

CONTENTS

CRITICAL DIRECTIONS IN COMPARATIVE FAMILY LAW

Critical Directions in Comparative Family Law:

Genealogies and Contemporary Studies of Family Law
Exceptionalism?Introduction to the Special Issue
on Comparative Family Law Janet Halley 753
and Kerry Rittich

Family Law Exceptionalism in

Comparative Law Fernanda G. Nicola 111
Savigny's Family/Patrimony Distinction and
its Place in the Global Genealogy of
Classical Legal Thought Duncan Kennedy 811
The Social Approach to Family Law:
Conclusions from the Canonical Family
Law Treatises of Latin America Isabel C. Jaramillo 843
Marrying Family Law to the Nation Philomila Tsoukala 873
Honor Killings and the Construction of
Gender in Arab Societies Lama Abu Odeh 911
The State of Care: Rethinking the Distributive
Effects of Familial Care Policies
in Liberal Welfare States Hila Shamir 953
Migrant Domestic Workers in Egypt:
A Case Study of the Economic Family
in Global Context Chantal Thomas 987
Black Sites: Locating the Family and
Family Law in Development Kerry Rittich 1023
BOOKS RECEIVED 1055
INDEX VOLUME 58 bi

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