News & Events Dr Brian Tobin Launches Book 'The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships: Emerging Families in Ireland and Beyond'

Dr Brian Tobin who lectures in Family and Child Law recently launched a new book titled ''The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships: Emerging Families in Ireland and Beyond'. The book was launched at an on-campus event with special guest Mr Justice Gerard Hogan of the Irish Supreme Court, who described the book as 'scholarship at its finest in terms of avant garde family law'.

This book analyses the key issues affecting same-sex families in Ireland and beyond today: marriage; formalised and non-formalised same-sex relationships outside of marriage; parental rights for same-sex couples with donor-conceived or surrogate-born children; and the protections afforded to same-sex families under European human rights law. 

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