Mavis Maclean,
(born 31 December 1943) is a British legal scholar. She has carried out
socio-legal research at the
University of Oxford
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since 1974, and in 2001 founded the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP).
In 1993 she was elected President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law,
International Sociological Association
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, in 2000 a Trustee of the Law and Society Association. Maclean is also a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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and the
ESRC Research College SHARe.
[ In 2011 she was the inaugural recipient of the Socio-Legal Studies Association's Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community.]
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See also
*Child custody
Child custody is a legal term regarding '' guardianship'' which is used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent or guardian and a child in that person's care. Child custody consists of ''legal custody'', which is the righ ...
*Divorce
*Family law
Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.
Overview
Subjects that commonly fall under a nation's body of family law include:
* Marriage, ...
*Parental rights
A parent is a caregiver of the offspring in their own species. In humans, a parent is the caretaker of a child (where "child" refers to offspring, not necessarily age). A ''biological parent'' is a person whose gamete resulted in a child, a male ...
*Paternity (law)
Paternity law refers to body of law underlying legal relationship between a father and his biological or adopted children and deals with the rights and obligations of both the father and the child to each other as well as to others. A child's ...
* Residence (ENG)
* Professor Carol Smart
* John Eekelaar
References
External links
Profile page: Mavis Maclean
St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
Department of Social Policy and Intervention (SPI), University of Oxford
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1943 births
Living people
British legal scholars
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Place of birth missing (living people)
British legal writers
Legal scholars of the University of Oxford
Sociologists of law
Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences