Marilyn Freeman
Dr. Marilyn Freeman, B.A. (Hons) LL.M, PhD (King's College, London) is Reader in Family and Child Law at London Metropolitan University, where, for many years, she has specialised in child law. Although not currently in practice at the Bar, she retains a door tenancy at a leading set of family law chambers.
Her research interests extend to various aspects of child law but, in particular, that of international child abduction. She has been regularly invited to international fora to deliver papers on this topic and is a member of the Legal Working Group of the All Party Parliamentary Committee on International Child Abduction.
She is Head of the Research Unit of Reunite, the International Child Abduction Centre, and is an Associate of the Programme on the International Rights of the Child (Queen Mary College, London). During a period as a research scholar at UTS (Sydney) she completed a 2-year research project on behalf of reunite into the Outcomes for Children Returned Following an Abduction, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and subsequently conducted a project on behalf of reunite, funded by the Department for Constitutional Affairs, investigating the effects of international child abduction.
She has undertaken research on behalf of reunite, funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, into the operation of the UK-Pakistan Protocol regarding child abduction between those two countries, and is shortly to commence research for reunite, funded by the Ministry of Justice, into the leave to remove jurisdiction, particularly considering any impact on contact and the issue of international child abduction.
Among her many publications on this matter, she has published a Special Edition of Occasional Papers on the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention, International Child Abduction and Related Issues, Part 11, 2002 (see Contemporary Issues Concerning International Child Abduction and the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention, reunite, 2002).
Contact Information
Tel: 020 7133 2963
Email: m.freeman@londonmet.ac.uk
~~~~~~~~
Publications
The voice of the child and the child’s fight for party status in cases on international child abduction.
This is based on a paper delivered at the International Society of Family Law conference in Chester, July 2007.
International Child Abduction - The Effects, (2006) www.reunite.org
The report of a research project exploring the effects of international child abduction was published and launched at the beginning of May 2006. The research has been undertaken by Marilyn, who is Head of the Research Unit of reunite, the International Child Abduction Centre, in conjunction with CAFCASS.
The research was supported by the Department for Constitutional Affairs and conducted on behalf of reunite. For the first time, it includes interviews with the abducted children.
It builds on the earlier reunite project and report (supported by the Foreign Office) into the Outcomes for Abducted Children- this can be found on the reunite website, www.reunite.org. The report has been published on the reunite website.
The Effects of International Child Abduction International Family Law [2006]
129
The Research findings were summarised by Elizabeth Walsh, Editor, for the readers of Family Law and International Family Law and appear at 33 Family Law [2003] 854 and International Family Law [2004] 6.
Abduction Outcomes, International Family Law [2004] 171 - peer-reviewed.
The Research Project Report (2003) ("The Outcomes Report") may be found on www.reunite.org
Occasional Papers on the 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention, International Child Abduction and Related Issues, Part 11, 2002, reunite.
The Hague Child Abduction Convention - An Uneven Playing Field, Part 1: The Voice Of The Child In Hague Convention Proceedings
The Hague Child Abduction Convention - An Uneven Playing Field, Part 11: Legal Aid and the Role of Administrative Proceedings
The Comparative Interpretation of Article 13b of The 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention
The Enforcement of Hague Convention Orders
The 1980 Hague Child Abduction Convention - "Still Working After All These Years".
In the Best Interests of Internationally Abducted Children - Plural, Singular, Neither or Both? International Family Law [2002] 77
Child Abduction - A Role for Mediation? International Family Law [2002] 104 - peer-reviewed. Co-authored with Anne-Marie Hutchinson, OBE and Henry Setright, QC.
The Hague Child Abduction Convention - Current Developments in Hague Convention Jurisprudence, or "A Universal Vaccine for a Mutating Virus". Contemporary Issues In Law, Volume 6, Issue 4, 2002/3, Lawtext.
Co-authored with Henry Setright, Q.C.
Rights of Custody and Access under The Hague Child Abduction Convention - "A Questionable Result"? 31 California Western International Law Journal [2001] 39.
Primary Carers and The Hague Child Abduction Convention, International Family Law[ 2001] 140.
Research Project Concerning Return Orders, Primary Carers and Their Children, International Family Law [2001] 153
