Product Description: This new text is a concise version of Ehrlich s Family Law for Paralegals, which is currently in its 6th edition, developed for use in shorter paralegal courses. The Fundamentals version of Ehrlich s text seeks to provide students with the knowledge and skills they will need to be effective paralegals in a busy family law practice...read more

Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women's sexuality in the United States. Starting with the mid-nineteenth-century campaign by the American Female Moral Reform Society to criminalize seduction and moving forward to the late twentieth-century conservative effort to codify a national abstinence-only education policy, Regulating Desire explores the legal regulation of young women's sexuality in the United States. The book covers five distinct time periods in which changing social conditions generated considerable public anxiety about youthful female sexuality and examines how successive generations of reformers sought to revise the law in an effort to manage unruly desires and restore a gendered social order. J. Shoshanna Ehrlich draws upon a rich array of primary source materials, including reform periodicals, court cases, legislative hearing records, and abstinence curricula to create an interdisciplinary narrative of socially embedded legal change. Capturing the complex and dynamic nature of the relationship between the state and the sexualized youthful female body, she highlights how the law both embodies and shapes gendered understandings of normative desire as mediated by considerations of race and class. "Extremely thorough and very enjoyable to read, this book provides an authoritative scholarly voice on its subject matter." -- Alesha E. Doan, coauthor of The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education J. Shoshanna Ehrlich is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is the author of Family Law for Paralegals, Sixth Edition and Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Teens.

Newly revised in its Fourth Edition, the popular text; <b>Family Law for Paralegals</b> offers a complete coverage of the basics of family law, combined with historical context and insight in topics of current interest. Engaging students with real-life examples and practical exercises centered on hot issues will induce excitement in the classroom and subsequently evoke a passionate response to the material covered in lecture. <p> <b>Instructors choose Family Law for Paralegals because: </b> </p> <p> • this <b>thoughtful and carefully written textbook</b> offers paralegal students the nuts-and-bolts of the law, while also providing a relevant historical framework and exposure to some of the most dynamic issues in family law today </p> <p> • <b>short historical overviews in each chapter</b> give students a meaningful understanding of family law </p> <p> • <b>comprehensive in coverage</b>, the book covers basic coverage of the issues of marriage and divorce, as well as <b>cutting-edge issues</b> such as non-marital families, child abuse and neglect, and same-sex marriage </p> <p> • <b>helpful real-life examples</b> enhance the textual discussions while sample forms show students what they will encounter in practice </p> <p> • <b>clear pedagogy</b>—including summaries, key terms, and review and discussion questions—helps students better understand the material and develop their critical thinking and writing skills </p> <p> • a <b>range of assignments</b> in each chapter provides students with the opportunity to practice different skills including research, analysis, memo writing, and argumentation </p> <p> • the <b>Instructor’s Manual</b> includes teaching tips and a Test Bank </p> <p> <b>Exciting changes to this Fourth Edition include: </b> </p> <p> • <b>new cases</b> that keep the book fresh in its Fourth Edition </p> <p> • <b>Internet references</b> in each chapter </p> <p> • <b>updated topical coverage</b>, with important new developments, particularly in the areas of gay/lesbian rights and nontraditional families </p> <p> <b>Family Law for Paralegals, Fourth Edition</b> uses clearly-written text and well-crafted pedagogy to make the material easily accessible to students, while a comprehensive educational package supports the instructor’s efforts give their students a thorough understanding of family law as it applies today. </p> <p> An author website to support classroom instruction using this title is available at <a href="http://www.aspenlawschool.com/ehrlich_familylaw4" target="_blank"> http://www.aspenlawschool.com/ehrlich_familylaw4</a> </p> <p> </p>

Product Description: The question of whether a young woman should be allowed to terminate a pregnancy without her parents' knowledge has been one of the most contentious issues of the post Roe v. Wade era. Parental involvement laws reach to the core of the parent-teen relationship in the highly contested realm of adolescent sexuality...read more