May 12 2024 48 mins
We all want to order our family lives around the values that matter to us, and family law is a means for us to achieve this order. Yet, as societies grow more multicultural and multireligious, we face a challenge - how can we protect the rights of religious citizens, while also enabling them to order their affairs according to their different religions? This complexities of navigating cultural and religious tensions in family law has arisen in visitation rights cases such as J v B [2017]. In the case of a divorce, what happens when, for example, one parent’s identity is not accepted by the religion and culture the children are raised in?
In this episode, Rach interviews Tristan Cummings, the Baker-Fellingham College Assistant Professor at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He did his undergraduate studies and the Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford, where he was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship for Best Overall Performance on the BCL and the Law Faculty Prizes in Children, Families and the State and Comparative Equality Law. He is currently an Editor of the University of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal. His research is focused on the intersection of family law, human rights law and religious freedom.
We discuss Dr Cummings’ article in the Journal of Law, Religion and State today: ‘Utilizing Systems Theory and Reflexive Law to Navigate the ‘Collision Between… Un-connecting Worlds’ in Family Law’.
Autogenerated transcript available at: https://rss.com/podcasts/oulp/1475459/#transcript