Dr. Edward Kruk is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia, President of the International Council on Shared Parenting, and Co-chair of the Scientific Committee of the Fifth International Conference on Shared Parenting. His research and teaching are focused on child and family policy and practice, and he has published extensively in the areas of shared parenting, family mediation, parental alienation and family violence. His fifth book, The Equal Parent Presumption, is the first to consider equal parenting as a new foundation for family law, summarizing current research and proposing a framework for the establishment of a rebuttable legal presumption of equal parenting responsibility.