Università Roma Tre

1. The exceptionalism of family law.
Family and market, special law and general law;
The family between public and private;
The constitutionalization of the family;
The so-called privatization of domestic relations;
Family, subject of law and identity;
The Missing View: family and gender.

2. Sexuality and family in contemporary law
Sexuality, gender, and identity: from claiming differences to anti-identity critique;
LGBT+ families and identity;
Civil unions;
The 'Cirinnà system' of conjugality;
Beyond the couple: polygamy and polyamory.

3. Between status and identity. The best interest of the child and the legal construction of parenting.
At the origin of the centrality of the child;
The right to bigenitoriality;
The authoritarian face of neoliberal family law;
Parenting and citizenship.

4. Between privatization and identity: the entry of civil liability into family relations
The demise of the principle of immunity in civil law: the Italian case;
Intrafamilial torts and the modernization of the law of domestic relations;
The decline of the Doctrine of Intrafamilial Immunity in Tort in North American case law

5. Law and Care Work.
What is social reproduction? Why law must recognize the value of care;
The legal status of care in Family Law;
The divorce allowance;
The remuneration of caregiving beyond family law.

6. Gender-based domestic violence.
The Istanbul Convention
The notion of economic violence
The measures of protection in family law

M.R.Marella, Il diritto di famiglia nella società contemporanea, Jovene, 2025, forthcoming