Professor Gillian Douglas
 Gillian
Douglas is Professor of Law at the Cardiff Law School, UK. She obtained her LLB
at Manchester University and her LLM at London University (the London School of
Economics) and was awarded the degree of LLD (Doctor of Laws) by Cardiff
University in 2011. She previously taught at the University of Bristol and was a
Visiting Teaching Fellow at the National University of Singapore. She is a
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, sat on the AHRC's Block Grant Panel in
2009, and is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and the Research Awards
Advisory Committee of the Leverhulme Trust. She is also Chair of the Law
Sub-Panel for the next research assessment exercise, REF 2014. She was elected a
Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2012.
Her main research
interest is family law, on which she has written extensively. She is the joint
case comments editor of the journal Family Law and co-editor of the Child and
Family Law Quarterly. She is the author of An Introduction to Family Law (2001:
Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2004), co-author (with Nigel Lowe) of
Bromley's Family Law (9th ed. 1998, 10th ed, 2006: Oxford UP), (with Chris
Barton) of Law and Parenthood (1995: Butterworths Law in Context series) and
(with Edward Jacobs) of Child Support: The Legislation (1st ed 1993, 2nd ed
1995, 3rd ed 1997: Sweet & Maxwell). Her interest in family law overlaps into
the field of medical law, and she is the author of Law, Fertility and
Reproduction (1991: Sweet & Maxwell). She carried out the first empirical study
(funded by the Nuffield Foundation) into access to fertility treatment under the
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Code of Practice (1992).
With colleagues from the disciplines of law, psychology and social sciences, she
has been involved in a number of empirical research studies into aspects of
family life and the law including: with M Murch, et al, Safeguarding Children's
Welfare in Uncontentious Divorce, Lord Chancellor's Department (LCD Research
Series 7/99:1999); with A Perry et al, How Parents Cope Financially on Marriage
Breakdown, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Family Policy Studies Centre and
Joseph Rowntree Foundation: 2000); with I Butler et al, Children's Perspectives
and Experience of the Divorce Process, 1997-2000, ESRC (published as Divorcing
Children (Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 2003); with N Ferguson et al,
Grandparenting in Divorced Families, 2000-2002, the Nuffield Foundation (Policy
Press, 2004); with R Moorhead and M Sefton, The Advice Needs of Lone Parents,
2003-4, the Nuffield Foundation (published by One Parent Families, 2004); with M
Murch, L Scanlan and C Miles, Research into the Operation of Rule 9.5 of the
Family Proceedings Rules 1991 Final Report 2004-6, Department for Constitutional
Affairs (DCA, 2006); with J Pearce (University of Bristol) and H Woodward,
Property Disputes on Cohabitation Breakdown, ESRC (published as A Failure of
Trust, Resolving Property Disputes on Cohabitation Breakdown,
www.law.cf.ac.uk/researchpapers/papers/1.pdf); with A Humphrey, G Morrell, L
Mills of the National Centre for Social Research, and H Woodward, Inheritance
and the family: attitudes to will-making and intestacy, Nuffield Foundation,
http://www.natcen.ac.uk/study/inheritance-and-the-family; with Julie Doughty,
Reasons for delay in public child care cases in the courts, for the South East
Wales Local Family Justice Council; and with Doe, Gilliat-Ray and Sandberg,
Social Cohesion and Civil Law: The Family and Religious Courts, funded by the
AHRC as part of the AHRC/ESRC Society and Religion Programme, on the role and
operation of three religious courts (Roman Catholic, Islamic and Jewish).
She is a founder member of the Network on Family, Regulation and Society, a
research collaboration between family socio-legal researchers from the
Universities of Exeter, Bath, Bristol and Cardif.
Any contributions will be
gratefully accepted
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