The Economic Covenant, along with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (“Civil Covenant”) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, comprise the International Bill of Rights. This Article examines the legal, historical, and practical reasons for the Obama...

International family law (IFL) is where the enormous abstract forces of 'globalization' and 'human rights' become real, immediate, and personal. A N.Y. Times reporter went to Ethiopia to cover the AIDS crisis and came home with an AIDS orphan. Elian Gonzalez's mother tried to escape from Cuba...

The world has never been richer and there are more billionaires than ever before. At the same time, the number of people living in poverty has increased by almost 100 million and 1.1 billion people live on less than a dollar a day. The chasm between the rich and the poor has become unfathomable....

The second edition of this casebook has been updated and trimmed, although it retains a wide range of topics and materials. It covers a variety of private international law issues, including child abduction, child custody, adoption, child support enforcement, and recognition of marriages and...

Ann Estin & Barbara Stark, Global Issues in Family Law (West, forthcoming 2007) introduces students to a rapidly developing area of the law where globalization quite literally hits home. It considers the basic subjects of the introductory Family Law course, including marriage, divorce,...