Mary Ann Glendon, The Transformation of Family Law: State, Law, and Family in the United States and Western Europe (Univ. of Chicago Press 1989).
Abstract: Mary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in the last decade.