Dr Prakash Shah is to attend the Workshop on Families: Deviance, Diversity and Law convened on 5-6 May 2011 by Professor Mavis Maclean and Professor John Eekelaar at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati, Spain. Dr Shah will act as discussant for the presentation for John Eekelaar titled: "For Governments: The Possibility of Moving from Multiculturalism to Cultural Voluntarism. How inactive can the State be?".