Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Room 313, Floor 3, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End, E1 4NS
The Centre for Small States warmly invites you to the launch of volume 5 in the World of Small States series: The Plural Practice of Adoption in Pacific Island States. The editors, Professor Jennifer Corrin and Professor Sue Farran will speak, followed by a drinks reception.
There is a registration of £1.
Traditional dress welcome.
About the bookThis book deals with adoption laws and practices in small island developing states in the Pacific. It commences with an introductory chapter giving an overview of relevant laws and practices and pulling together the common themes and issues raised in the book. Each of the following chapters deals with adoption law and practice in a small South Pacific country. The countries in question all have plural legal systems, with systems of adoption and its closest customary law equivalent operating side by side. In most cases, there is an insufficiently developed relationship between the two systems, which has resulted in a number of problems. Additionally, international law adds another layer of complexity. Size and remoteness in the small states under discussion have a profound impact on local practices.
A preview of the book is available here.
Professor Jennifer Corrin is a Professor of Law at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. She has published in the areas of legal pluralism, comparative law, South Pacific law, customary law, human rights, court systems, evidence, civil procedure, family law, land law, constitutional law and contract. Her current projects include research on legal pluralism and theories of law; access to justice in plural regimes; indigenous law and processes in Melanesia; and family law in the South Pacific. In 2016 she published the third edition of Courts and Civil Procedure in the South Pacific, and a fourth edition of Introduction to South Pacific Law in 2017. Before joining The University of Queensland, Professor Corrin spent six years at the University of the South Pacific, having joined the Faculty after nine years in her own legal firm in Solomon Islands. She retains strong links with the profession and is a life member of Solomon Islands Bar Association. Professor Corrin is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Legal Pluralism, a member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal of South Pacific Law, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific.
Professor Sue Farran is a Professor of Law at the Department of Law at Northumbria University. In addition to qualifications in English and Social Anthropology, she studied law in the mixed jurisdiction of South Africa before post-graduate studies in South Africa and at Cambridge. She has held posts at the University of KwaZulu Natal (Pietermaritizburg), the University of the West of England, the University of the South Pacific and at the University of Dundee, as well as teaching at universities in France and Malaysia . She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of the South Pacific and an Associate of the Centre for Pacific Studies at St Andrews University in Scotland. She has a long-standing interest in comparative law and legal pluralism, and much of her published research uses case studies from the island countries of the South Pacific region to focus on issues of human rights, legal pluralism, the challenges of development and sustainability, globalisation and legal colonialism. In particular she is interested in the interface between legal systems and normative frameworks within states and between states, and the relationship between national, regional and international players in shaping and developing legal responses to contemporary issues. Recent publications include the edited collections A Study of Mixed Legal Systems: Endangered, Entrenched, or Blended (2017) and The Diffusion of Law: The Movement of Laws and Norms Around the World (2015) and the monograph Human Rights in the South Pacific (2010).
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