This book offers an overview of the laws surrounding child abduction within the European Union. The first part of this book critically evaluates the evolution of the separate intra-EU child abduction regime and examines to what extent the EU complied with its standards of good legislative drafting during the negotiations on the Brussels II bis Regulation. It demonstrates that there was no real legal need for the involvement of the EU in the area of child abduction and for the tightening of the 1980 Hague Abduction Convention return mechanism. The second part of the book presents findings of a...