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Personal Update
With several posts today, we’re catching up on news from the past few months. I had a very interesting spring semester living and working in the U.K., as Director of the London Law Consortium, a study abroad program for US law students. Keeping up with the blog fell by the wayside, however, when I broke my right [...]
Abortion Issues in Ireland and Poland
Ireland. As reported in the New York Times, a British non-profit organizaiton was set to open an abortion clinic this month in Belfast, the first ever in Ireland. See Douglas , Belfast Clinic for Abortions Due to Open (October 11, 2012). For more information, see the Marie Stopes International web page. The opening was met [...]
Interracial Marriage in US
A story this winter in the New York Times, based on a Pew Research Center report, suggests that rates of interracial marriage have increased over the past thirty years and that Americans now view interracial marriages more positively. Using data from the U.S. Census Brueau, the Pew Center Report indicated that 15% of all new mariages [...]
Postscript to the Angelica L. Case
Thanks to Ignacio Goicoechea for sending the link to this article by Aaron Nelsen in In These Times (Dec. 20, 2011): Torn Apart: How the Government Separates Parents and Children. The article tells the story behind Interest of Angelica L., 767 N.W.2d 74 (Neb. 2009).
Trial in Argentina Over Baby Thefts
Former Argentine military dictators and several others have been on trial for the past nine months on charges that they kidnapped children born to pregnant political prisoners (who were later killed) during the “dirty war” that lasted from 1976 to 1983. Coverage from the BBC web page at the beginning of the trial is here; [...]
Flores-Villar: Divided Court Affirms Ninth Circuit
The Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion this week in Flores-Villar v. United States, a case that raised the issue once again of distinctions in the citizenship rights of children born abroad to unmarried U.S. citizen-mothers and those born to unmarried U.S.-citizen fathers. Noting that Justice Kagan did not take part in the consideration or [...]
Supreme Court Term Begins Today
As the Supreme Court begins its 2011 term, its docket includes Flores-Villar v. United States, docket no. 09-5801, a case challenging citizenship laws that distinguish between the nonmarital children of U.S. citizen fathers and mothers. In addition to the briefs of the parties, amicus briefs have been filed by groups including the American Civil Liberties Union, the National [...]
Families Across Borders
My purpose in starting this blog is to collect and share information from all kinds of sources about family law and policy. My particular focus will be on families that form and extend across international borders. Family policies have an enormous impact on the lives of women and children in all countries, and should be an important consideration [...]
