Nigel Lowe, QC (Hon), Emeritus Professor of Law, Cardiff University,Gillian Douglas, Professor of Law Emerita , King's College London,Emma Hitchings, Professor of Family Law, University of Bristol,Rachel Taylor, Associate Professor of Law, University of Oxford and Fellow in Law, Exeter College, Oxford Nigel Lowe is Emeritus Professor of Law at Cardiff University. He is a child law specialist with a particular expertise on adoption, wardship and the inherent jurisdiction and on international aspects of child law. Gillian Douglas is Professor of Law Emerita at King's College London. Her work explores the relationship between family law and social change across the whole of the family life course, from the creation of families, through family obligation and relationship breakdown, to inheritance law. Emma Hitchings is a Professor of Family Law at the University of Bristol Law School. Her research interests within the family law field include financial remedies on relationship breakdown and the family justice system. Rachel Taylor is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford. Her research interests concern the protection and implementation of children's rights.