After 14 years, the pathway to asylum in the United States for Rody Alvarado seems finally to have cleared, with the Obama Administration indicating this week in a filing in immigration court that it considers her to be eligible for asylum. This story in the New York Times by Julia Preston gives some of the background on the case and quotes Karen Musalo, director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at Hastings College of Law, who has been Ms.
State Department ACPIL Meeting
The annual meeting of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law (ACPIL), held in Washington D.C. this week, included a panel on international family law issues. The discussion included:
New Issue: International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family
Advance Access to the December 2009 issue of the International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family is now available online. The issue includes articles on the interrelation of no-fault divorce and premarital contracts (Jens-Uwe Franck); the prohibition of same-sex marriages in Uganda (Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi); the legal battle against domestic violence in India (Tahira Karanjawala and Shivani Chugh); recent developments on same-sex couples and the law in the British Isles (Brian Tob