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Mavis Maclean

Mavis Maclean
Position:
Senior Research Associate
Telephone (+01865):
(2)70325
Email Address:
mavis.maclean@spi.ox.ac.uk

Personal Info

Mavis Maclean has carried out Socio Legal research in Oxford since 1974, and founded OXFLAP in 2001. She has acted as the Academic Adviser to the Lord Chancellor’s Department since 1997, and served as a panel member on the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry between 1998 and 2001, a major public inquiry into the National Health Service. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law. 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, and in 2002 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the ESRC Research College SHARe . She has served on a number of grant making committees, notably the Children and Family Justice Committee, Nuffield Foundation 1996-, the Research Liaison Group for Children’s Services, Department of Health 1996-, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Social Policy Committee. She was a member of Lord Chancellor’s Legal Aid Advisory Committee 1992-4, and is a Fellow of the IISL, Onati, Spain, a member of the Management Committees of the Centre for Family Research, Cambridge, and TCRU. She is an editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family and the International Journal of Law in Context. Her research interests are Family Law and Family Policy, particularly from a comparative perspective.

The Family Justice System is currently undergoing a period of fundamental review in structure and access. 

An international seminar on Diversity, Deviants and Family Law was to be held in Onati, Spain, May 201.  The proceedings are in press with Hart Publishing.

For information on current research into the family judiciary and the justice system, contact mavis.maclean@spi.ox.ac.uk.

 

 

 

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Publications

  • Maclean, M. & Kurczewski, J. (2011) Making Family Law. A Socio Legal Account of Legislative Process in England and Wales, 1985 to 2010, Hart Publishing.
  • Fehlberg, B., Smyth, B., Maclean, M. & Roberts, C. (2011) Caring for children after parental separation: would legislation for shared parenting time help children? Family Policy Briefing Paper No. 7. Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.
  • Buss E. and Maclean M. (2010) The Law and Child Development, Ashgate.
  • Maclean, M. (2010) Edited a Special Issue: Mediation: the Questions. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 32 (2).
  • Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. (2010) Family Law Advocacy.  How Barristers Help the Victims of Family Failure. Hart, Oxford.
  • Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. (2009) Family Advocacy:  How barristers help victims of family failure.  Hart, Oxford.
  • Fehlberg, B. and Maclean, M. (2009) Child Support Policy in Australia and England: Changing Policy But A Similar Tough Deal For Children? International Journal of Law, Family and Policy 23 (1), 1-24.
  • Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. (2009) 'Legal representation and parental autonomy: the work of the English Family Bar in contact cases'  in Sclater, S., Ebtehaj, F., Jackson, E. and Richards, M. (eds) Regulating Autonomy: Sex, Reproduction and Family.  Hart, Oxford.
  • Maclean, M. (2009) The many advantages and disadvantages of a no blame culture regarding medical errors, in (Ed) Brian Hurwitz and Aziz Sheikh Health Care Errors and Patient Safety, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
  • Maclean, M. (2009) 'The perils of reforming family law' in Jo Miles and Rebecca Probert (eds) Sharing Lives, Divided Assets, Hart: Oxford.
  • Maclean, M. and Buss, E. (eds.) (2009) The Law and Child Development,  Ashgate: Oxford
  • Maclean, M. (2009) State, family and the welfare of the child in an ethnically diverse society. in, Vinod Chandra (ed). Growing up in a Globalized World.  Macmillan.  India. 
  • Maclean, M. (2008) 'Maintenance' in The New Oxford Companion to Law. Edited by Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan.
  • Maclean, M. (2008) 'Sociology of Family Relationships' in Encyclopaedia of Law and Society.  Vol. 2. Edited by David Clark.  SAGE Publications.
  • Maclean, Mavis (ed) (2007) Parenting after Partnering: Containing Conflict after Separation Onati International Series in Law and Society, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2007.
  • Maclean, Mavis (ed.) (2005) Family Law and Family Values Hart Publishing, Oxford; Hbk 1-84113-547-X, Pbk 1-84113-548-8
  • Maclean, Mavis (2005) Parenthood should not be regarded as a right in Archives of Disease in Childhood
  • Maclean, Mavis, & Eekelaar, John (2005) Taking the plunge: perceptions of risk taking associated with formal and informal partner relationships in Child and Family Law Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 2
  • Maclean, Mavis & Eekelaar, John (2005) The Significance of Marriage: Contrasts between White British and Ethnic Minority Groups in England in Law and Policy Vol. 27, No. 3. ISSN 0265-8240
  • Eekelaar, J & Maclean, M. (2004) Marriage and the Moral Bases of Personal Relationships. Journal of Law and Society, vol 31 no 4 Dec 2004, pp510-539.
  • Maclean, M & Eekelaar, J (2004) The Obligations and Expectation of couples within families; three modes of interaction Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 26(2), pp117-130
  • Maclean, M & Eekelaar, J (2004) Personal Relationships, Marriage and Morals Working Paper 2004/1, Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Department of Social Policy and Social Work. ISBN 0-9541 703-5-0
  • Maclean, Mavis (2001) 'How does an inquiry inquire? A brief note on the working methods of the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry' Journal of Law and Society Vol 28 (4), December 2001, 590-601.
  • Maclean, M  (2001) 'Doctors, parents and the law-organ retention after paediatric cardiac surgery at the Bristol royal Infirmary Inquiry' Child and Family Law Quarterly, vol 13, no 4, 2001.
  • Katz, S, Eekelaar, J & Maclean, M (eds) (2000) Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the United States and England Oxford University Press.
  • Eekelaar, J, Maclean, M & Beinart, S (2000) Family Lawyers Hart, Oxford.
  • Maclean, M (ed) (2000) Making Law for Families Hbk 1-84113-205-5, Pbk 1-84113-206-3 - Hart Publishing, Oxford.
  • Maclean, M with Warman, A (2000) 'A comparative approach to child support systems' in Melli, M (ed) Child Support: the Next Frontier University of Michigan Press.
  • Maclean, M  (2000) 'Access to justice for families in post war Britain' in Katz, S, Eekelaar, J and Maclean, M (eds) Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the United States and England OUP.
  • Lewis, Jane with Maclean, Mavis (1997) 'Recent Developments in Family Policy in the UK: the Case of the 1996 Family Law Act' in May, M, Brunsdon, E & Craig, G (eds) Social Policy Review 9, Social Policy Association.
  • Maclean, Mavis and Eekelaar, J. (1997) The Parental Obligation. Hart, Oxford.
  • Maclean, Mavis and Kurczewski, J. (1997) Family Law and Family Policy in the New Europe. Dartmouth.

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