Autori
Carpaneto, Laura
Maoli, Francesca
Sciaccaluga, Giovanni
Lembrechts, Sara
Van Hof, Tine
Kruger, Thalia
Vandenhole, Wouter

Titolo
Understanding the Best Interests of the Child in EU Child Abduction Proceedings: Perspectives from the Case Law
Periodico
Diritti umani e diritto internazionale
Anno: 2020 - Volume: 14 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 337 - Pagina finale: 363

In cases of international child abduction, human rights law and private international law are in constantinteraction. Private international law seeks to prevent and discourage international child abduction,hence its prioritization of the immediate return of the child whenever an abduction takesplace. Children’s rights law, as part of human rights law, emphasizes that the best interests of thechild must be a primary consideration in all matters affecting the child. At the same time, the principleof the child’s best interests has acquired importance within the application of the Hague Conventionof 1980 and of the Brussels II-bis Regulation. This paper draws on the empirical data obtained duringthe VOICE project, which analyzed over one thousand European cases on international child abduction,with the aim of understanding if and how judges across Europe give substance to the notion ofthe child’s best interests in their case law. The analysis shows that judges do not always see the immediatereturn of an abducted child necessarily in his or her best interests. Instead, national courtsuse the principle of the child’s best interests in a multi-faceted way, which leads to many differentoutcomes in the application of international legal instruments in child abduction cases.



SICI: 1971-7105(2020)14:2<337:UTBIOT>2.0.ZU;2-8
Testo completo: https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.12829/97958
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