ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Oñati has enabled this group of scholars who share an interest in family law and family poli- cy, but come from a variety of academic disciplines and countries, to meet, to argue and to develop their ideas over almost a decade. We are grateful for this opportunity and proud to present our third volume of essays. This follows on from our first volume, Family Law and Family Policy in the New Europe, published in 1997, which looked at the development of fam- ily law in a period of rapid transition in Eastern Europe when norms and values were.
