Ira Mark Ellman

Books
When Laws Seem Fair: The Example of Family Law (with Sanford Braver) (2023). Family law rules decide whether former intimate partners have continuing financial obligations to one another, how their property should be divided, and how parental responsibility should be allocated. All may agree such laws should be fair, but how is fairness judged? The authors measured a previously unstudied benchmark of fairness: what seems fair to ordinary people. They asked random samples of community members for their judgment of the fair resolution of hundreds of hypothetical cases and found that rules inductively derived from their patterns of decisions did a better job than did legislatures and judges in balancing the valid but competing fairness claims such cases present. These studies should interest anyone who wants to understand when laws seem fair.The book presents the studies as originally published along with newly written chapters that synthesize and give context to their findings. See the Amazon page, with reviews, here Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems (5th edition, 2010, Kurtz, Weithorn, Bix, Eichner and Czapanskiy). (Abridged edition, 2014)click American Law Institute, Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (2002, with Katherine Bartlett and Grace Blumberg). For more informationclick Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell (3d edition, 2011, with Mark Hall and David Orentlicher). For more information click below. click

Books

When Laws Seem Fair: The Example of Family Law (with Sanford Braver) (2023). Family law rules decide whether former intimate partners have continuing financial obligations to one another, how their property should be divided, and how parental responsibility should be allocated. All may agree such laws should be fair, but how is fairness judged? The authors measured a previously unstudied benchmark of fairness: what seems fair to ordinary people. They asked random samples of community members for their judgment of the fair resolution of hundreds of hypothetical cases and found that rules inductively derived from their patterns of decisions did a better job than did legislatures and judges in balancing the valid but competing fairness claims such cases present. These studies should interest anyone who wants to understand when laws seem fair.The book presents the studies as originally published along with newly written chapters that synthesize and give context to their findings. See the Amazon page, with reviews, here

Family Law: Cases, Text, Problems (5th edition, 2010, Kurtz, Weithorn, Bix, Eichner and Czapanskiy). (Abridged edition, 2014)click
American Law Institute, Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (2002, with Katherine Bartlett and Grace Blumberg). For more informationclick
Health Care Law and Ethics in a Nutshell (3d edition, 2011, with Mark Hall and David Orentlicher). For more information click below. click

withe