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3 Child & Fam. L.J. 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/cflj3 and id is 1 raw text is: BOOK REVIEW: CASTING OFF THE CANON: FAMILY LAW REIMAGINED, JILL ELAINE HASDAY (Harvard University Press, 2014) Laurie S. Kohn* INTRODUCTION The contours of marriage and family have shifted dramatically in the past several decades. Recent family law scholarship has analyzed how the law will accommodate the changing forms of marriage, parenthood, and family.1 To consider how the family law canon will react to such societal changes affecting marriage and the family, one must have a distinct vision of the canon in the first place. Jill Hasday'S2 new book, entitled Family Law Reimagined, offers a clear-eyed vision of what family law is, what it is not, and where it might be headed. Hasday considers family law's canon-the set of principles by which we have come to characterize family law-and then debunks the canon by methodically setting forth each notion and illustrating its inaccuracies or limitations. In doing so, Hasday urges the reader to clear the noise of the canon and to see the law in all its messy inconsistencies and shortcomings. The central mission of this book-debunking the traditional family law narrative-is an enormously valuable one. As Hasday explains, Associate Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School. I want to thank Jill Hasday for writing this important and thought- provoking book, as well as the organizers of the 2015 Law and Society Conference in Minneapolis, who gave me the opportunity to comment on the book. I am also grateful for the able research assistance of Krystal McKay and Olaumoke Obayanju. See, e.g., JUNE CARBONE & NAOMI CAHN, MARRIAGE MARKETS: How INEQUALITY Is REMAKING THE AMERICAN FAMILY (Oxford University Press 2014); CLARE HUNTINGTON, FAILURE TO FLOURISH: How LAW UNDERMINES FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS (Oxford University Press 2014); HERBIE DIFONZO & RUTH STERN, INTIMATE ASSOCIATIONS: THE LAW AND CULTURE OF AMERICAN FAMILIES (The University of Michigan Press 2013). 2 Distinguished McKnight University Professor University of Minnesota; Centennial Professor in Law. 1

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