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Conference: Fractured Families
International Social Services (ISS) will hold its annual U.S. conference on November 4 and 5, 2010, at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. The topic is “Fractured Families: The Causes and Consequences of Children Separated From their Families Across International Borders.” The keynote speaker will be Judge Peter J.Messitte of the U.S. District Court for [...]
Conferences
Several conferences this fall will address aspects of international and comparative family law: Information on the IV World Congress on Child and Adolescent Rights, to be held November 15-18 in San Juan, is available at www.childrightscongress.org; the call for papers and posters requires submission of an abstract by October 3, 2010. Previous Congresses were held in Venezuela [...]
Conferences
Scheduled for April 8-10 at the University of Cambridge: the 4th Conference of the Commission on European Family Law on The Future of Family Property in Europe. Information is here; early registration closes at the end of January. The conference is organized by Jo Miles and Jens Scherpe at Cambridge; speakers include Lord Justice Thorpe, [...]
Upcoming Conferences
“When Worlds Collide — Tensions in Family Law” Around the world, family law is presenting some of the most personally critical, intellectually challenging, and politically controversial issues for legal resolution. The North American Regional Meeting of the International Society of Family Law and the Midwest Family Law Consortium seeks papers exploring these cutting edge issues [...]
International Child Abduction, Relocation, and Forced Marriage: Conference set in London
The Centre for Family Law and Practice at London Metropolitan Univeristy has announced the program for its inaugural conference in London from June 30 to July 2, 2010, in London. The conference is intended for judges, academics, researchers and practioners; papers were selected after a call for papers and there is an impressive and interesting [...]
The Role of Ethics in International Law
Here’s an interesting conference this week in Washington D.C., convened by the Legal Theory Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, on the Role of Ethics in International Law. The conference has a terrific line up of speakers; it is free for ASIL members and $15. for non-members. More information and a link [...]
State Department ACPIL Meeting
The annual meeting of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law (ACPIL), held in Washington D.C. this week, included a panel on international family law issues. The discussion included: An update on the Child Support Convention, which is the first treaty to be taken up by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during this session of [...]
Conferences on International Family Law at the French Cour de cassation
This announcement of two upcoming conferences in Paris was posted today by Gilles Cuniberti on conflictoflaws.net, with links to the conference programs: A conference on November 9 on the importance of nationality in French-Moroccan relations (Les enjeux de la nationalité dans les relations franco-marocaines). The speakers will be judges from France and Morocco. A conference on November 20 [...]
