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Legal sector needs to ‘catch up’ with intercountry adoption regulations
In a recent research paper, a university scholar has called out the laws and regulation around intercountry adoption, insisting the legal sector needs to adapt.
Associate professor Sonja Van Wichelen has published Law and Society Review to argue that the world of international adoption is undergoing profound changes and the legal profession and its…
- Naomi Neilson
- Lawyers Weekly
In her research, Ms Van Wichelen examined the impacts of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, which was established in the early 1990s to set out and define the international principles that…
“The convention does…