List Books » The Contractual Reallocation of Procreative Resources and Parental Rights: The Natural Endowment Critique
Authors: William J. Wagner
ISBN-13: 9781855216532, ISBN-10: 1855216531
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Limited
Date Published: August 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book offers a comprehensive study of contract as a legal response to developments in human reproductive technology. At the same time, it supplies a basis for grasping and effectively responding to the societal choices the new technology of reproduction poses. It anchors its study of contract in an original conceptual map, which synthesizes relevant issues of fact and value and sets out society's current options. It explores the meaning of existing American law and proposals for legal reforms within the conceptual framework to which it contributes, with special regard to contract's role, analyzing the history of the law of the marriage contract, artificial insemination by donor, and 'surrogate motherhood'. The work advances arguments for respecting the human meaning of lineage and nurturance as setting at least broad limits to the role of contract and, more generally, to the scope of individual intention and state power, as society gives legal shape to its response to reproductive technology.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
I | Framing the Discussion: The Role of Contract Under Hypothetical Legal Alternatives for Ordering Human Reproduction | 11 |
A | A Definition of Contract | 11 |
B | The Role of Contract in Two Existing Taxonomies of Legal Approaches to the New Reproductive Technologies | 14 |
C | A Unified Field of Analysis for the Legal Ordering of the New Reproductive Technologies | 24 |
D | A Taxonomy of Alternatives in the Legal Ordering of the New Reproductive Technologies | 27 |
E | Summary: The Diverse Roles for Contract in the Legal Ordering of the New Reproductive Technologies | 35 |
II | The Role of Contract in Ordering Reproduction Under Existing Law and Proposals for Legal Reform | 55 |
A | The Role of Contract in the Existing Law of Marriage | 55 |
B | Existing Legal Adaptations to the New Reproductive Technologies | 70 |
C | The Role of Contract within the Leading Proposal for Statutory Reform of the Law of Procreation | 98 |
D | The Role of Contract in Ordering Procreation: The State of the Legal Question | 102 |
III | Normative Evaluation of Contract as a Means of Legal Ordering for Human Reproduction | 131 |
A | The Basic Societal Choice Posed by Current Developments in Human Reproduction | 131 |
B | A Normative Evaluation of Contract as a Principle Governing the Basic Human Relationships Implicated by the New Reproductive Technologies | 133 |
Conclusion | 201 |