Tuesday, June 20, 2023

CFP: Family Law History

We have learned that the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers will devote a special issue of its Journal to the legal history of family law.  Proposals are welcome now, with drafts due in the fall of 2024 and publication in the spring of 2025. The submission guidelines are here.  Gary A. Debele, a Minneapolis-based family law practitioner who teaches the University of Minnesota Law School’s Family Law Capstone course and is one of the editors of the special issue, writes:
The topic can be of  the writer’s choosing, so long as it relates to some historical aspect of  family law or family law practice and procedure. We define family law practice broadly, including all aspects of divorce, custody and parentage, but also assisted reproduction, adoption, the Indian Child Welfare Act, child protection, domestic abuse, as well as topics such as changing family demographics, LGBTQ+ issues, and gender issues. 

Update: Interested authors may send their proposals to our executive editor, Mary Kay Kisthardt (whose email address appears in the linked guidelines) who will forward them to the special issue's editors, Mr. Debele and Steven Peskind.

--Dan Ernst