International law has become part of everyday family law practice, as lawyers everywhere are confronted with questions regarding the rights of 'mail-order' brides, the adoption of children from other countries, the abduction of children by foreign parents, and domestic violence victims seeking asylum. Indeed, globalization is transforming family law, even as families themselves are being redefined. This book provides a practical overview of such issues and also examines the ways in which culture shapes family law in different countries. It provides students with a useful introduction to challenging, complicated and fascinating issues in international family law. Finally, by incorporating a comparative perspective, it gives readers an opportunity to re-examine their own legal systems.
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Barbara Stark is Professor of Law at the Hofstra University School of Law, USA.
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If one's attraction to this book is based, understandably, upon the fact that it's about the only thing in print on this topic, then you'd be well-advised to look further; that is, of course, unless you're a practicing international family lawyer specializing in divorce. Marriage and divorce make up the main topics of this book. It has a good intro of eight pages for absolute beginners, but after that, it's mostly a bunch of cases filling up this small book that tries poorly to be comprehensive. Too bad, because there are some burning issues in this field, like abduction (barely touched upon), child labor (hardly discussed), marriage fraud (a terrorist tactic totally ignored), anchor babies and chain migration (the author seems unaware of these as well as the following), honor killings, acid burnings, dowry crime, human trafficking, and sex slavery. I understand the book is not supposed to be an issues book. It's a law book. But, I think one can go to the Hague site or a U.N. site and learn just as much.
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This question contains three related but distinct questions, all of which pivot on the multiple meanings of 'international' in this context. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Hague Convention, United Nations, European Convention, United Kingdom, Amnesty International, South Africa, Supreme Court, Council of Europe, Hague Conference, Civil Code, International Covenant, The International Survey of Family Law, Czech Republic, General Assembly, Inter-American Convention, New York, African Charter, Hague Child Abduction Convention, Women's Convention, Merrill Lynch, Possible Approach, Concluding Observations, Constitutional Court, Special Rapporteur New!
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United States, Hague Convention, United Nations, European Convention, United Kingdom, Amnesty International, South Africa, Supreme Court, Council of Europe, Hague Conference, Civil Code, International Covenant, The International Survey of Family Law, Czech Republic, General Assembly, Inter-American Convention, New York, African Charter, Hague Child Abduction Convention, Women's Convention, Merrill Lynch, Possible Approach, Concluding Observations, Constitutional Court, Special Rapporteur New!
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- International Survey of Family Law 2005 by Andrew Bainham on 8 pages
- Islamic Marriage and Divorce Laws of the Arab World (Cimel Book Series, 2.) (Developments in International Law) by Dawoud El Alami on page 28, and page 93
- Family Law by N. V. Lowe in Front Matter, and page 203
- Family Bonds: Adoption, Infertility, and the New World of Child Production by Elizabeth Bartholet on page 72
- European Human Rights Law by Mark W. Janis on page 157
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