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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Demanding Parental Obligation in Financial Provision: Situating the Best Interests of the Child in the Division of Matrimonial Assets
No full textAt the end of a marriage, child support is the primary and most direct way by which parents provide financially for their child; at best, the division of matrimonial assets provides for the child’s welfare indirectly. This is usually insufficient and/or difficult to enforce against payor parents for many reasons, including new liabilities. Therefore, this thesis proposes a new approach to financial provision for the child.
This new theoretical framework for the division of matrimonial assets is based on the child’s best interests, which entitles them to a share of their parents’ assets. To establish this new basis, I first consider the dominant legal theories and moral philosophies to explore the justifications for parental obligation, and why such obligation should be exercised in the child’s best interests. Illustrated using the law in England and Wales, and Singapore, I critically examine what constitutes the child’s welfare, and how it should be promoted and protected. I then consider the extent to which current approaches to financial provision for children after divorce meets these requirements.
Drawing on this previously-unexplored link between parental obligation and financial remedies, I argue that the child’s best interests can be situated in the financial provision by parents, in turn, entitling them to a share from their parents’ division of matrimonial assets. In this regard, I suggest three justifications for this new basis for division: an entitlement based on the parent-child relationship, the demands of parental obligation, and the child’s needs.
Guided by this approach, I propose the creation of a new Child-Centric Stage that provides the child with a starting point of a 10% share of the matrimonial assets, subject to variation if in their welfare. While concerns regarding its implementation exist, these are not insurmountable. Ultimately, my proposed framework strengthens the protection of the child’s best interests
Law in society: reflections on children, family, culture and philosophy: essays in honour of Michael Freeman
No full textThis collection, written by legal scholars from around the world, offers insights into a variety of topics from children’s rights to criminal law, jurisprudence, medical ethics and more. Its breadth reflects the fact that these are all elements of what can broadly be called ‘law and society’, that enterprise that is interested in law’s place or influence in diffferent aspects of real lives and understands law to be simultaneously symbol, philosophy and action. It is also testament to the broad range of vision of Professor Michael Freeman, in whose honour the volume was conceived. The contributions are divided into categories which reflect his distinguished career and publications, over 85 books and countless articles, including pioneering work on children’s rights, domestic violence, religious law, jurisprudence, law and culture, family law and medicine, ethics and the law, as well as his enduring commitment to interdisciplinarity. The volume begins with work on law in its philosophical, cultural or symbolic realm (Part I: Law and Stories: Culture, Religion and Philosophy), including its commitment to the normative ideal of ‘rights’ (Part II: Law and Rights), and then offfers work on law as coercive state action (Part III: Law and the Coercive State) and as regulator of personal relationships (Part IV: Law and Personal Living). It continues with reflections on the importance of globalisation, both of law and of ‘doing family’ in personal and public life (Part V: Law and International Living) before closing with two reflections on Michael Freeman’s body of work generally, including one from Michael himself (Part VI: Law and Michael Freeman)
Parents in law: subjective impacts and status implications around the use of licensed donor insemination
No full textThe focus of this chapter is the significance of the legal ascription of parenthood, in the context of donor insemination, as a mechanism of the social management of family formation. Identifying a particular person as a legal parent, or excluding another from parental status, can clearly both affect and reflect societal attitudes to parenting and transgressive familial forms. At the outset I consider the authority of legal discourse to confer legal parenthood, and through the analysis of interview accounts of lesbian couples and heterosexual couples, go on to examine the kinship terminology used in both heterosexual and lesbian families with children conceived by donation. This analysis facilitates an understanding of the subjective impact of the legal ascription of parenthood, or lack thereof, for some people using donor insemination to create their families. I conclude by addressing three interrelated questions: whether Anglo-Welsh family law has the necessary mechanisms for recognising the parental role of co-mothers; whether 'parenthood' is an appropriate status to reflect the role of co-mothers; and the ways in which lesbian co-motherhood might be accommodated under the current law relating to parenthood
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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