Product Description
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 exam… More >>
International Family Law: An Introduction
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#1 by T. R. OConnor on May 7, 2010 - 2:37 pm
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.
Rating: 3 / 5