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.It critically examines the Irish and Australian citizen-led approaches to achieving marriage equality, which made Ireland and ...

This edited collection brings together a range of experts on surrogacy, at a time when the law in the UK has been fully reconsidered for the first time in generations.Society has developed significantly since surrogacy laws were first written and the existing law is out of date and no longer fit for purpose. Each chapter in this collection considers one aspect of surrogacy regulation and analyses the potential effectiveness of proposed reforms or suggests what changes should be mad...

Multiple Eisner-award winning author Paul Tobin returns, with Brittney Williams making her Plants vs. Zombies debut with another imaginative addition to the New York Times bestselling series!On your bookmarks...get set...GO!Let the bookish battle commence! When Dr. Zomboss and Crazy Dave find themselves members of the same book club, a literary war is inevitable! The position of leader of the book club opens up and the plants vs. zombies r...

Three standalone comics adventures await in this hilarious Zomnibus collection!In Dr. Zomboss’s latest Zomnibus collection, our beloved zombie army leader takes his evil schemes to Lake Gumbo, where Nate, Patrice, Crazy Dave, and the plants will need to fight him off to keep the lake clean and safe in Rumble at Lake Gumbo! Then, in the War and Peas adventure, Crazy Dave and Zomboss end up joining the same book club, and they go h...