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The Nordic Countries in the Vanguard of European Family Law Jens M. Scherpe 1 The Legal Recognition of Same-sex Relationships …...….………..… 266 1.1 The First Steps Taken in Sweden …………………………………. 266 1.2 Denmark Introduces the Registered Partnership …………….……. 267 1.3 The Other Nordic Countries Follow and the ‘Nordic Model’ is Created …………………………………………………..……… 269 1.4 European Initiatives and Cases …………………………….……... 270 1.5 The Nordic Influence on National Legislators …………….…… … 271 2 The Legal Recognition of Cohabitation Relationships ……...…...….. 274 2.1 Cohabitation as a Social Fact ……………………………….…….. 274 2.2 The Legislative Response to Cohabitation in Europe ……….……. 275 2.3 Sweden as the Paradigm for ‘Informal Cohabitation’ ……….…… 277 2.4 Swedish Cohabitation Legislation as a Yardstick for European Legislators …………………………………………..…. 279 3 The Legal Recognition of Gender Change ………………..…………. 280 3.1 Sweden Allows a Legal Change of Gender in 1972 …………… 280 3.2 Other Countries Follow Sweden’s Lead – and Overtake it …… 281 3.3 Legal Reforms - Sweden on its Way Back to the Top Flight? … 285 4 Conclusion: The Influence of Nordic Law …………..………………. 286 © Stockholm Institute for Scandianvian Law 1957-2010 266 Jens M. Scherpe, The Nordic Countries in the Vanguard of European Family Law The question that sets the theme for this celebratory volume of the Scandinavian Studies in Law is ‘What is Scandinavian Law’? As an attempt to partially answer that question in a slightly roundabout way, this article endeavours to identify fields of family law where specific and genuine Nordic influences in other, non-Nordic jurisdictions can be found. This has proved to be a more than worthwhile undertaking because desp