2004 Adoption Policy Conference

Intercountry Adoption, the European Union, and Transnational Law

Globalization is transforming domestic law, in American and other nations around the world. Nowhere is this process more evident than in the field of adoption law. The 2004 Annual Adoption Conference focused on developments in the fields of intercountry adoption, transnational law, and European Union law. The conference also examined human rights issues in relation to intercountry adoption.

The Conference's presentations and speakers included:

Opening Remarks

• Diane B. Kunz, Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy

Keynote Address: International Adoption, a Revolution in the Making

• Adam Pertman, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

Panelists

• Robert D. Schulzinger, Chair and Commentator, The United States, the United Nations, and the European Union

• Maarten Pereboom, Salisbury University, The European Union and the Place of Central and Eastern Europe in the European World

• Robert D. Schulzinger, University of Colorado at Boulder, Editor, Diplomatic History, The United States and Multilateralism

• Diane B. Kunz, Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy, European Union Organic Documents and European Judicial Institutions

• Diane B. Kunz, Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy,International Adoption: The Current Legal Paradigm

• Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law School, The Politics of International Adoption: Halting Progress and Perennial Problems

• Ethan Kapstein, INSEAD, Regulating International Adoption: The Role of the Hague Conference

• Paul Dubinsky, New York Law School, The U.S. and Various Hague Conventions

• Sara Dillon, Suffolk University School of Law, Making Legal Regimes for Intercountry Adoption Reflect Human Rights Principles

• Elizabeth Bartholet, Chair and Commentator, The United States in the Adoption World

• Rita Simon, American University, The Historical Framework of a Transformation

• Debora Spar, Harvard Business School, Trading Places: International Adoption and the Regulation of Reproductive Technologies

• Mary Hansen, American University, Economics of the U.S. Regulations Implementing the Hague Convention

• Dr. Jane Aronson, World Wide Orphans Foundation, Medical Considerations in EU Adoption