Mavis Maclean, MA (Oxon), MSC (Lond), LIB

Mavis Maclean has carried out Socio Legal research in Oxford since 1974, and is now joint Director of OXFLAP. She has acted as the Academic Adviser to the Lord Chancellor’s Department since 1997, and served as a panel member on the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry between 1998 and 2001, a major public inquiry into the National Health Service. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law. In 1993 she was elected President of the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association, in 2000 a Trustee of the Law and Society Association, and in 2002 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the ESRC Research College SHARe. She has served on a number of grant making committees, notably the Children and Family Justice Committee, Nuffield Foundation 1996-, the Research Liaison Group for Children’s Services, Department of Health 1996-, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation Social Policy Committee. She was a member of Lord Chancellor’s Legal Aid Advisory Committee 1992-4, and is a Fellow of the IISL, Onati, Spain. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Welfare Law and the Family, and of the Management Committees of the Centre for Family Research, Cambridge, and the One Parent Families Association. Her research interests are Family Law and Family Policy, particularly from a comparative perspective.

Tel: (01865) (2)70325
Email: mavis.maclean@socres.ox.ac.uk

 Selected recent publications (since 2000)

	Maclean, M. (ed) (2005). Family Law and Family Values. Hart Publishing, Oxford.
	Maclean, M. (2005). Parenthood should not be regarded as a right. Archives of Disease in Childhood.
	Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. (2004). Taking the plunge: perceptions of risk taking associated with formal and informal partner relationships. Child and Family Law Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 2.
	Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. (2005). The Significance of Marriage: Contrasts between White British and Ethnic Minority Groups in England. Law and Policy Vol. 27, No. 3.
	Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. (2004). 'Personal Relationships, Marriage and Morals'. Working Paper 2004/1, Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, Department of Scoial Policy and Social Work. ISBN 0-9541 703-5-0
	Eekelaar, J. and Maclean, M. (2004). 'Marriage and the Moral Bases of Personal Relationships.' Journal of Law and Society, vol.31(4), Dec.2004, pp.510-539.
	Maclean, M. and Eekelaar, J. (2004). 'The Obligations and Expectation of couples within families; three modes of interaction.' Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 26(2), pp. 117-130.
	Maclean, M. (2001). 'Doctors, parents and the law-organ retention after paediatric cardiac surgery at the Bristol royal Infirmary Inquiry'. Child and Family Law Quarterly, vol 13, no 4
	Maclean, M. (2001). How does an inquiry inquire? A brief note on the working methods of the Bristol Royal Informary Inquiry'. Journal of Law and Society Vol 28 (4), December, 590-601
	Katz, S, Eekelaar, J & Maclean, M (eds) (2000). Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the United States and England Oxford: Oxford University Press
	Eekelaar, J, Maclean, M & Beinart, S (2000). Family  Lawyers. Oxford: Hart
	Maclean, M. (ed) (2000). Making Law for Families. Oxford: Hart
	Maclean, M & Warman, A (2000). A comparative approach to child support systems. In Melli, M (ed) Child Suport: the Next Frontier University of Michigan Press
	Maclean, M (2000). Access to justice for families in post war Britain. In Katz, S, Eekelaar, J and Maclean, M (eds) Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the United States and England. Oxford: OUP