Faculty & Staff

Shani King Shani M. King
Assistant Professor; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families


P.O. Box 117625 / Gainesville, FL 32611-7625
e-mail: kings@law.ufl.edu
352-273-0951 / Fax: 352-392-3005

Perspectives in Family Law, LAW 6711
Credits: 4
Prerequisites: None

This course examines legal and theoretical approaches to defining and regulating the family. The course considers the state's current role, and its ideal role, in regulating the creation and dissolution of family relationships and in setting family members' rights and responsibilities. Topics include marriage, divorce and spousal support, child custody and support, adoption and reproductive technologies. While the course covers current doctrine, it is also theoretical and normative: it examines the justifications for current law and asks how theory might motivate alternative approaches to reform.

Professional Responsibility & the Legal Profession, LAW 6750
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None

This course takes a comprehensive look at the organization, operation and ideology of the legal profession. This course seeks to convince students that in the practice of law they will often be asked to make difficult ethical decisions. Students will be encouraged to identify and critically examine the theoretical justifications for various alternative approaches to ethical problems that they are likely to encounter in practice, as well as to understand the practical ramifications of particular actions.

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