In Friend v. Friend, Ethan J. Leib takes stock of friendship--the most ancient of social institution--and its ongoing transformations, and contends that it could benefit from better and more sensitive public policies. Leib shows that the law has not kept up with changes in our society: it sanctifies traditional family structures but has no thoughtful approach to other aspects of our private lives. Showing why more legal attention to friendship could actually improve our public institutions and our civil society, Leib ...
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In Friend v. Friend, Ethan J. Leib takes stock of friendship--the most ancient of social institution--and its ongoing transformations, and contends that it could benefit from better and more sensitive public policies. Leib shows that the law has not kept up with changes in our society: it sanctifies traditional family structures but has no thoughtful approach to other aspects of our private lives. Showing why more legal attention to friendship could actually improve our public institutions and our civil society, Leib offers a number of practical proposals that can support new patterns of interpersonal affinity without making friendship an onerous legal burden. An elegantly written and highly original account of the changing nature of friendship, Friend v. Friend upends the conventional wisdom that law and friendship are inimical, and shows how we can strengthen both by seeing them as mutually reinforcing
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