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A judge in Buenos Aires ruled on November 13 that a same-sex couple must be permitted to marry on constitutional equality grounds; on November 15 the mayor announced that the city would not appeal the ruling.  Here’s an item on
In Sunday’s New York Times, a story by Marc Lacey, “Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives,” considers the effects of the economic slow-down on the cross-border financial relationships of Mexican families.  Remittances from the United S
The Centre for Family Law and Practice at London Metropolitan Univeristy has announced the program for its inaugural conference in London from June 30 to July 2, 2010, in London.  The conference is intended for judges, academics, researchers a
Here’s an interesting conference this week in Washington D.C., convened by the Legal Theory Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, on the Role of Ethics in International Law.  The conference has a terrific line up of speakers; it is free for ASIL members and $15.
Documentary films and short fiction can be very helpful in teaching classes or seminars on international and comparative family law.  Of the films I have shown students, the best for my purposes is Divorce Iranian Style, by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini (1998). 

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