Family Law: Cases and Materials on Legal Concepts and Changing Human Relationships (American Casebooks) (American Casebook Series)
(The book uses legal practice as a basis to develop a theo...)
The book uses legal practice as a basis to develop a theory of family law. Then it places family law more broadly within legal theory. The organization of the text and the presentation is intended to facilitate an understanding of the significance of family law to legal theory in general. Covers marriage and the relationship between family law and commercial law; informal marriage: state withdrawal or state intrusion; equality in marriage; state control over entry into an exit from marriage; children: raising the next generation; and problems caused by foreign law and our federal system.
Frances Elisabeth Olsen, American law educator, theorist. Bar: Colorado 1972, United States District Court Colorado 1972. Named Outstanding Alumnus University Colorado, 1989. Member Association American Law Schools (chair jurisprudence section 1987-1988, chair women in law teaching section 1995-1996), Conference on Critical Legal Studies, European Conference Critical Legal Studies, International Bar Association.
Background
She was born in Chicago, Illinois, received a Bachelor of Arts from Goddard College in 1968, a Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado in 1971 (where she was the Notes and Comments Editor of the law review), and an S.J.D. from Harvard University in 1984.
Education
Certified, Roskilde (Denmark) Højskole, 1967. Bachelor, Goddard College, 1968. Juris Doctor, University Colorado, 1971.
Doctor of Juridical Science, Harvard University, 1984.
Career
She teaches Feminist Legal Theory, Dissidence & Law, Family Law, and Torts. While in law school, Olsen did legal aid work for migrant farm workers in Colorado. After law school, she was a law clerk for Alfred Arraj, the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
In 1973, she represented Native Americans at Wounded Knee.
She also established a public interest law firm in Denver, Colorado that handled feminist issues. From 1981 to 1983, while an South.J.D. student, she founded a legal academic women"s group, the Fem-Crits, which spread across the country.
She has written more than 100 scholarly articles, co-authored Cases and Materials on Family Law: Legal Concepts and Changing Human Relationships, and edited two collections on feminist theory. Her article The Family and the Market, 96 Harvard
L. Review 1497 (1983), is one of the most cited works in legal scholarship.
She has taught courses in feminist legal theory at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Frankfurt, the University of Tokyo, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at other universities in the United States, Chile, France, Italy, Japan, and Israel. She was a Fellow at Oxford University in 1987 and holds a Life Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge University. She has lectured throughout the world.
Her areas of research interest include legal theory, social change, and feminism.
Membership
Member Association American Law Schools (chair jurisprudence section 1987-1988, chair women in law teaching section 1995-1996), Conference on Critical Legal Studies, European Conference Critical Legal Studies, International Bar Association.