Mavis Maclean

Mavis Maclean, CBE, FRSA, FAcSS^[1] (born 31 December 1943) is a British legal scholar. She has carried out socio-legal research at the University of Oxford since 1974, and in 2001 founded the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP).^[2]

In 1993 she was elected President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association, in 2000 a Trustee of the Law and Society Association. Maclean is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the ESRC Research College SHARe.^[2] In 2011 she was the inaugural recipient of the Socio-Legal Studies Association's Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community.^[3]

Bibliography

Books

• Katz, Sanford N.; Eekelaar, John; Maclean, Mavis (2000). Cross currents: family law and policy in the United States and England. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198299448.
• Eekelaar, John; Maclean, Mavis; Beinart, Sarah (2000). Family lawyers: the divorce work of solicitors. Oxford: Hart. ISBN 9781841131856.
• Maclean, Mavis (2000). Making law for families. Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Portland, OR Oxford: Hart. ISBN 9781841132051.
• Eekelaar, John; Maclean, Mavis (2004). Personal Relationships, Marriage and Morals. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy (OXFLAP) working paper, Department of Social Policy and Social Work. ISBN 9780954170356.
• Maclean, Mavis Ed. (2005). Family law and family values. Oxford Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing Ltd. pp. 137–153. ISBN 9781841135489.
• Maclean, Mavis Ed. (2007). Parenting after partnering : containing conflict after separation. Oxford Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing. pp. 65–80. ISBN 9781841137827.

Journals

• Maclean, Mavis (2001). "Doctors, parents and the law-organ retention after paediatric cardiac surgery at the Bristol royal Infirmary Inquiry". Child and Family Law Quarterly. 13 (4). Social science research network: 399–404. SSRN 2089467.
• Maclean, Mavis (4 December 2001). "How does an inquiry inquire? a brief note on the working methods of the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry". Journal of Law and Society. 28 (4): 590–601. doi:10.1111/1467-6478.00204. JSTOR 3657962.
• Maclean, Mavis; Eekelaar, John (December 2004). "Marriage and the moral bases of personal relationships". Journal of Law and Society. 31 (4): 510–539. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2004.00301.x. ISSN 0263-323X. JSTOR 1410653.
• Maclean, Mavis; Eekelaar, John (2004). "The obligations and expectation of couples within families; three modes of interaction". Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 26 (2): 117–130. doi:10.1080/0141803042000236060. S2CID 144993728.
• Maclean, Mavis (2005). "Parenthood should not be regarded as a right". Archives of Disease in Childhood. 90 (8): 782–783. doi:10.1136/adc.2004.064493. PMC 1720506. PMID 16040871.
• Maclean, Mavis; Eekelaar, John (July 2005). "The significance of marriage: contrasts between white British and ethnic minority groups in England". Law & Policy. 27 (3): 379–398. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9930.2005.00204.x.

Book chapters

• Maclean, Mavis; Warman, Andrea (2000), "A comparative approach to child support systems: legal rules and social policies", in Oldham, J. Thomas; Melli, Marygold S. (eds.), Child support: the next frontier, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 166–179, ISBN 9780472110575
• Maclean, Mavis (2000), "Access to justice for families in post war Britain.", in Katz, Sanford N.; Eekelaar, John; Maclean, Mavis (eds.), Cross currents: family law and policy in the United States and England, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 363–387, ISBN 9780198299448

See also

• Child custody
• Divorce
• Family law
• Parental rights
• Paternity (law)
• Professor Carol Smart
• John Eekelaar

References

External links

• Profile page: Mavis Maclean St Hilda's College, University of Oxford
• Profile page: Mavis Maclean Department of Social Policy and Intervention (SPI), University of Oxford

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