Separarsi e divorziare senza giudice?

The volume collects the reports that were presented at the conference held in Turin on 3 March 2017, entitled “Separate yourself and divorce without a judge?” The aim of the conference was to offer a reflection on the reforms that have affected family law in recent years: the introduction of attorney-assisted negotiation on separation and divorce and the possibility of separating and divorcing, even without assistance of a lawyer, through an agreement reached before the mayor as a registrar; the development of the institution of family mediation; the approval of the c.d. “Short divorce”; the discipline of civil unions and cohabitation. The conference wanted to observe the consequences that these reforms are determining on the resolution of the crisis of the marital relationship and on the roles and the functions performed by the operators of the sector, first of all the judges and the lawyers, in particular examining the meaning of the separation and the divorce reached through a process, but through a negotiation between the parties. The Italian evolution of family law is certainly not isolated, but is part of a framework present in numerous other systems. The conference has therefore widened the angle of investigation to the experiences of other European countries, with attention to the supranational perspective of the European Union.