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Contribution to Book
The Debate
Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes (2012)
  • David M. Smolin
  • Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law School
Abstract

This chapter is taken from a forthcoming book on Intercountry Adoption, edited by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Robati and forthcoming in June of 2012. The chapter constitutes a debate between Professor Elizabeth Bartholet and Professor David Smolin. Each independently was given three questions to answer, and then one opportunity to respond to the other's answers to those three questions, all with strict space limitations. The debate illustrates some of the starkly different perspectives regarding the law, policies, and facts relevant to intercountry adoption.

Keywords
  • Intercountry Adoption; Subsidiarity; Hague Convention; Child Trafficking; Child Laundering,
  • Child Rights
Publication Date
2012
Editor
Judith L. Gibbons & Karen Smith Rotabi
Publisher
Ashgate
Publisher Statement
Chapter taken from Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes (Ashgate; edited by Judith L. Gibbons & Karen Smith Rotabi, forthcoming June 2012).
Citation Information
David M. Smolin and Elizabeth Bartholet. "The Debate" Williston, VTIntercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/david_smolin/11/