Professor Nigel Lowe is the leading expert in international family law, with a world-wide reputation for his work in child law, international family relocation and child abduction. His career, spanning more than 40 years, has produced a huge body of literature and is internationally influential and of particular importance within Europe.A collaborative effort by members of the judiciary, practitioners and fellow academics from both the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions International and National Perspectives on Child and Family Law is a recognition of the impact of his work. It covers key issues in international child and family law including those in which Professor Lowe's work has been particularly influential, namely adoption, wardship, parental responsibility, children's rights, international family relocation and the 1980 Hague Convention on International Child Abduction.International and transnational family law has been a developing field of study and a growing area of legal practice over recent years. At a time of great international change and with the complications and implications of Brexit, this book covers many of the key issues in family law today and provides the reader with an exploration of possible future developments in the field.

Contributions by: Mervyn Murch, Gillian Douglas, Victoria Stephens, Stephen Gilmore, Leanne Smith, John Eekelaar, Julie Doughty, Trevor Buck, Helen Stalford, Kathryn Hollingsworth, Mathew Thorpe, David Hodson, Claire Fenton-Glynn, Frédérique Ferrand, Jonathan Herring, Ann Laquer Estin, Ruth Lamont, Mark Henaghan, Cristina González Beilfuss, Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Velina Todorova, Dieter Martiny, Rhona Schuz, Jens Scherpe