LYNN HECHT SCHAFRAN, JD, is Senior Vice President of Legal Momentum, the Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Director of its National Judicial Education Program (NJEP) since 1981. She has designed and presented courses for numerous national, state, and federal judicial colleges, focused on the ways explicit and implicit gender bias can undermine fairness in family, juvenile, civil, criminal, and problem-solving courts. She has a long-standing interest in neuroscience and the Adverse Childhood Experiences study (ACEs). In 2000 she added a ground-breaking unit on the neurobiology of trauma to NJEP’s two-day judicial education curriculum, Understanding Sexual Violence: The Judicial Response to Stranger and Nonstranger Rape and Sexual Assault.. Her article Domestic Violence, Developing Brains and the Lifespan: New Knowledge from Neuroscience was published in The Judges’ Journal in 2014. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Law Institute.
The Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) is an intergovernmental organization in private international law (also known as conflict of laws), that administers several international conventions, protocols, and soft law instruments.
Since 1955, the HCCH has developed 40 international conventions and protocols that establish rules on jurisdiction, applicable law, the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, and legal and judicial cooperation. They are open for adoption, accession, or ratification by any State, including States that are not members of HCCH. Two of these conventions are related to women and children, the conventions on child abduction and adoption.
In this episode, Lynn discusses a landmark Hague Convention case Blondein vs. Blondein.
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