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The protection of children from violence in the context of intimate partner violence/domestic violence and custody & visitation (12 December 2022)
An overview of the international normative framework in relation to the protection of children from violence. It focuses on issues related to custody rights.
Published by WAVE: Women against Violence Europe Network
Ameliorative Measures gut the Grave Risk exception under the Hague Convention (23 July 2021)
An article for the New York Law Journal which argues that ‘ameliorative measures’ do not protect children facing ‘grave risk of harm’ upon return to home country under the Hague Convention and consideration of such measures should be eliminated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Institutional Violence against Users of the Family Law Courts (18 January 2019)
A study of family court-enabled abuse in Spain and the presentation of a new ‘Legal Harassment Scale’ to detect and measure this form of violence.
Miguel Clemente et al: Frontiers in Psychology.
Inside Kelly Rutherford’s Brutal, Globe-Spanning Custody Battle
The story of how American actress Kelly Rutherford’s US-born children were sent to live with their German father, and her failed attempt to bring them home. Also mentions Sarah Kurtz whose children (one of whom was born in the US and was still breastfeeding) were sent to live in Sweden.
Vanity Fair, 8 October 2015. Image from article, Photograph by Claiborne Swanson Frank.
Domestic Violence, children’s agency and mother-child relationships: towards a more advanced model (11 April 2013)
The author argues that childrens’ agency and the bilateral nature of the parent-child / mother-child relationship needs to be acknowledged, specifically in a domestic violence situation.
Emma Katz in Children & Society, vol 29 (no 1)
Getting Hagued. The impact of international law on child abduction by protective mothers (March 2014)
Discusses the gendered impact of the Hague Convention & its trivialisation of domestic violence.
The Hague Abduction Convention: a critical analysis (27 November 2013)
The 1980 Hague Convention was the response of the international community to the increase in the phenomenon of parental child abduction. However, behind the success of this Convention – which has now been ratified by more than 102 states – lie personal tragedies, academic controversy and diplomatic tensions. This book brings together all these strands to provide an in-depth critical academic analysis in light of the objectives of the Convention and other relevant legal norms, such as the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.