Susana Najurieta, María Keywords: MinoChildren | Family law | Adoption | Private international law | Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption (The Hague, 29 May 1993) | Children's rights | Human rights | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT This course aims to understand what the law can offer, through family law, comparative law, and private international law, for the well-being of children and the respect of their fundamental rights. Thus, this course is divided into a chapter-by-chapter study of the fu…

Bucher, Andreas Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | ABSTRACT Andreas Bucher, Professor at the University of Geneva, points out that private international law should take the personality and the interests of each family member into account. However, insofar as these interests are articulated differently for each legal relationship that forms the legal fabric of the family, the result is a certain disruption of the family status. Professor Buc…

Meziou, Kalthoum Keywords: European Union | Migration | Family life | Immigration | Foreign workeFamily reunion | Human rights | Domestic relations | France | Maghreb | Family law | Islamic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT The "conflict of civilizations" conveys a globalized and fixed vision of the Muslim world and conceals the changes that have affected, to varying degrees, family law, particularly in the Maghreb. The theme, revisited through family relations in the context of Euro-Maghreb migration, must be surpassed. The focus on fun…

Lequette, Yves Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Conventions | Mots clefs: Droit de la famille | Droit international privé | Conventions | ABSTRACT In this course Yves Lequette, Professor of the University of Paris II, reports on the constant expansion of the place that is occupied by conventions in contemporary international law, in particular in with respect to family law. On the debit side: the deterioration that this causes with respect to the coherence of the domestic order. On the credit side: than…

Boele-Woelki, Katharina Keywords: Family law | Private international law | Choice of law | Unification of law | Law of contracts | Model law | Legal principles | Conventions | Directives | International law and domestic law | Mots clefs: ABSTRACT Traditionally, conflict of law rules designate only national substantive law as the applicable law. Many unifying and harmonizing substantive law instruments of both States and non-State organizations, however, are designed specifically for application to cross-border relationships. Achieving …