Plurality and Diversity of Family Relations in Europe

This volume contains the contributions delivered at CEFL's sixth international conference, which focused on comparative and international family law in Europe in their respective cultural contexts. Inter alia in this book CEFL experts and other legal scholars address the CEFL and its Principles, the interrelation of family law and family sociology, family migration, childrens and womens fundamental rights, as well as the developing concept of parenthood, the role of children in family proceedings, extra-judicial divorces and ADR in family matters.While the development of modern trends in European family law is going on, some new challenges arise and old challenges remain. The awareness of more plurality and diversity in family relationships is increasing. Both pose problems. New legal solutions have to be integrated into the existing family law system. On the other hand, there are tensions between modern fundamental values and traditional religious solutions. For both a deeper analysis is necessary.The conference, and in turn the book, aims to enhance the exchange of ideas and arguments on comparative and international family law in Europe.

Dieter Martiny is emeritus Professor at Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder.Dieter Martiny studied law in Heidelberg, Freiburg, Hamburg and Munich from 1963 to 1968. He passed the first and the second State Exam in Munich. After his PhD (1975) and habilitation (1995) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, he was a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for foreign and international private law in Hamburg from 1974-1996. Besides that, he was a professor in Hamburg and Osnabrück.Since 2009, he is a guest professor at the Max Planck Institute for foreign and international private law in Hamburg.