Dr Brigitte ClarkSenior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and honorary research fellow of Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United KingdomEmail: clarkb@ukzn.ac.zaProfileExpertiseProfileI am a qualified South African Attorney and Conveyancer who left practice to join academia some 30 years aog. I did my doctorate in Family Law and have lectured at the Universities of Cape Town (nine years), Rhodes University, the University of East Anglia, Oxford Brookes and now the University of Kwa Zulu Natal in Family Law, Medical Law , Contract Law and Jurispruduence. I have published in many South African Journals and in many interntiaonal journals in England and Europe and written a short work on Child Maintenance in South AFrican Law. I am the General and Contributing Editor of Butterworths' Family law Service and I write the chapter on Marriage for the Annual Survey of South African Law.ResearchExpertiseFamily Law and Jurisprudence.