{"title":"‘Regrettably it is not that Simple’: the Case for Minimalistic Marriage Laws","authors":"P. Nash","doi":"10.46692/9781529210842.011","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks at the inadequacies of English law and notes their needless complexity. It criticises Akhter v Khan and suggests that reform guided by nudge theory offers a promising solution. It then makes the case for moving towards a minimalistic law of marriage.","PeriodicalId":279989,"journal":{"name":"Cohabitation and Religious Marriage","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cohabitation and Religious Marriage","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529210842.011","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter looks at the inadequacies of English law and notes their needless complexity. It criticises Akhter v Khan and suggests that reform guided by nudge theory offers a promising solution. It then makes the case for moving towards a minimalistic law of marriage.