caa a22 4500 388082542 CHVBK 20180307125221.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/744013 doi S0738248000007124 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/744013 Grossberg Michael Who Determines Children's Best Interests? [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Grossberg] Danaya Wright's analysis of English child custody law is thoughtful and thought provoking. Through an excursion deep into English legal history, she not only contextualizes the De Manneville case but also convincingly demonstrates that child custody has long been contested and that those contests have always contained an incendiary mix of policies and practices. Wright's article documents that the key elements of custody conflicts—property, children's needs, and paternal and maternal rights and claims—have distinct and collective histories and that both defy easy analysis. In doing so, her essay makes it clear that these cases have always been difficult because they involve changing and clashing interests and because common law tribunals are the setting for their definition and application. Consequently, her essay is a compelling example of the benefits of locating a case in its particular place and time. Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1999 Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/2(1999), 309-314 0738-2480 17:2<309 1999 17 LHR https://doi.org/10.2307/744013 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/744013 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Grossberg Michael NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Law and History Review Cambridge University Press 17/2(1999), 309-314 0738-2480 17:2<309 1999 17 LHR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge