Adoption Law and Human Rights: International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367893651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 352 str.

Kerry O'Halloran

Opis

This book provides a comparative analysis of the interaction between adoption law and human rights in common law, civil law and Asian countries.

Spis treści

1.  Introduction;  2: Chapter One: Human Rights and the Concepts, Principles and Social Construct of Adoption;  3. Chapter Two: The Domestic Legal Framework;  4. Chapter Three: The International Legal Framework and Intercountry Adoption;  5: Chapter Four: The Adoption Process, Human Rights and the ECtHR;  6: Chapter Five: England; 7: Chapter Six: The US;  8: Chapter Seven: France;  9: Chapter Eight: Germany;  10: Chapter Nine: Japan;  11: Chapter Ten: China;  12: Chapter Eleven: Adoption and Human Rights: National Tensions and International Standards;  13: Conclusion.

O autorze

Kerry O'Halloran is an academic with extensive adoption experience, due to having worked as both a social worker and a lawyer. He has also served for 11 years on a UK adoption panel, and has contributed quarterly for the past 17 years to the BAAF Adoption & Fostering journal.