International Family Law Topic of Law School Lecture

Two leading experts on international family law treaties will speak on children's rights, intercountry adoption, international child abduction and international family support at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Moot Court Room of the University of California, Davis, law school. Adair Dyer, deputy secretary general of the Hague Conference on Private International Law, and Peter H. Pfund, assistant legal adviser for private international law at the U.S. State Department, will speak at the 15th Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on the Family. The late Professor Bodenheimer taught law at UC Davis, specializing in family and community property law. Both Bodenheimer lecturers have just participated in international governmental meetings earlier this month at the Hague that produced a new Convention on the Protection of Children. The new treaty incorporates many ideas first advanced by Bodenheimer. Dyer will address the increasing use of treaties to deal with specific international family law problems, while Pfund will discuss the new interest of the U.S. government in these and other international family law developments. The lectures are free and open to the public. For those in the legal profession, the lectures are approved for one hour of continuing legal education credit.

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