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Dr Julie Wallbank

Senior Lecturer

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My writing mainly concerns the legal regulation of family life.

My monograph Challenging Motherhood(s) (Pearson Education, 2001) provided a Foucauldian analysis of the social and legal construction of parenthood in the early to mid 1990s.

I have also written on the law relating to reproductive technologies, focussing particularly on the parenthood provisions.

I have analysed the low conviction rates in rape cases where victim and alleged perpetrator are known to each other.

Scholarly and Research Interests

My current research concerns parental responsibility, rights, gender, social class, residence and contact disputes.

Teaching

I teach on modules in the following areas:

Family Law
Child Law
Gender and the Law
Jurisprudence

PhD Supervision

I am happy to consider potential students in:

Family Law
Child Law
Gender and the Law
Feminist Jurisprudence
Reproductive Technologies and the Law
Law of Residence and Contact and associated Family and Child Law subjects

Key Publications

Book

Wallbank, J. Choudhry, S. and Herring, J. (eds.) (2009) Rights, Gender and Family Law, Routledge: London.

Book Chapters

Wallbank, J. Choudhry, S. and Herring, J. (2009) 'Welfare, Care, Rights and Gender', In: Wallbank, J. Choudhry, S. and Herring, J. (eds.) Rights, Gender and Family Law, Routledge: London.

Wallbank, J. (2009) 'Engendering the Fusion of Rights and Responsibilities in the Law of Contact', In: Wallbank, J. Choudhry, S. and Herring, J. (eds.) Rights, Gender and Family Law, Routledge: London.

Wallbank, J. (2009) 'Parental responsibility and the responsible parent: Managing the "problem" of contact', In: Probert, R., Gilmore, S. and Herring, J. (eds.) Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility, Hart Publishing: Oxfor.

Journal Article

Wallbank, J (2009) "Bodies in the Shadows" Joint Birth Registration, parental responsibility and social class, Child and Family Law Quarterly, pp. 1-18.