It is estimated that there were a million casualties from the use of poison gases in the First World War. Official figures list 180,983 British soldiers as being gassed, of whom 6,062 died in the trenches, but these figures are often considered to be...

The Hague Conventions were international treaties negotiated at the First and Second Peace Conferences at The Hague, Netherlands in 1899 and 1907, respectively, and were, along with the Geneva Conventions, among the first formal statements of the laws...

Reports released by the GAO and State Department show that the U.S. government is failing to help return to their American parents children illegally abducted overseas. As the nation awaited the outcome of the presidential election, the hundreds of cases of international parental...

I. INTRODUCTION The United States has not been a particularly good sport when it comes to private international law conventions. One of the most important international organizations to which the United States belongs is the Hague Conference on Private International Law. The Hague...

Guatemala has ratified an international adoption treaty, committing to bring adoptions under government regulation and make sure babies are not bought or stolen.Guatemalan law currently allows notaries to act as baby brokers who recruit birth mothers, handle paperwork and complete foreign adoptions in less than...

A divorced woman may move to Japan with her daughter over the wishes of the child's father, even though he fears Japanese law won't allow him to enforce visitation orders, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Monday.The 7-0 ruling upheld two lower court rulings in...