Institution: | * Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton St., London WC2A 2AE. I am very grateful to Professor Anders Agell and Professor Ann Sofie Ohlander of Uppsala University, and to Justice Lars Tottie of the Supreme Administrative Court, Stockholm, for the time they spent in reading and commenting on an earlier draft of this article and for their helpful comments. Errors and opinions in this article are mine. Quotations from the Marriage Code 1987 are from a translation made by Martin Naylor, commissioned by the Faculty of Law, Uppsala and the Swedish Ministry of Justice. |