Cambridge Family Law: '#WeAreFamilyToo Globordered Families Struggles against Covid-Regulation'

Speaker: Professor Daphna Hacker

In my latest book, I explored the many ways families are affected by the interrelations between globalization and borders, and the key role of the law in shaping these globordered families’ creation, practices, and breakdown. The Covid-19 crisis provides a fascinating opportunity to revisit these families. In my talk, I will present findings from my current study (funded by the ISF), on struggles of different types of globordered families against Covid-regulation – binational couples; families created by transnational surrogacy; multi-generational families separated by a national border; and, families assisted by a migrant worker for the care of an elder parent and the migrants’ left behind families.

Professor Daphna Hacker is a legal scholar and a sociologist, and is a full professor at the Law Faculty and the Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University. Her socio-legal research focus on the intersection of law, families and gender and provide empirical as well as normative insights in relation to post-divorce parental arrangements, inheritance conflicts, filial piety towards elder parents, and transnational families.. Prof. Hacker was recently elected to serve as a member of The International Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2023-2026.

If you have any questions, please get in touch with Claire Fenton-Glynn (ces74@cam.ac.uk)