A very thought provoking article published in the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review.
A dialogue on the consenquences of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, which has become a double-edged sword in intercountry adoption. On the one hand it was meant to protect trafficking of children and illegal adoptions, but on the other hand it has become a big hinderance in providing children with loving families. Thus resulting in the sharp drop in the number of adoptions globally.
The dialouge features a student in Mona Abe, and the Professor Barozzo, law professor at Boston College and member of the International Adoption Strategy Group at Harvard to discuss the legal complexities of adoption, the dilemma between strict compliance and the best interest of the child and jurisdictional conflict.
Please click the link below.
https://www.culawreview.org/podcast-1/the-paradox-of-international-adoption-unintended-consequences-of-procedural-safeguards#:~:text=Though%20the%20practice%20of%20international,safely%20adopted%20into%20permanent%20home.
