Bench Guide for Judges:

• Washington State Bench Guide on the Hague Convention and Domestic Violence

Participate in our NIJ funded study:

Our NIJ funded study aims to better understand the experiences of women who have come into the United States with their children after leaving an abusive relationship and who then become involved in a legal dispute under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. If you are a judge who has heard such a case, we would like to hear from you. Please click here for more information on the research study.

Information from the Hague:

• Hague Convention Homepage
• Publications from the Hague Convention: A variety of international publications and newsletters collected at the Hague.
• Full text of the Hague Convention: The multilateral treaty that seeks to protect children from the harmful effects of abduction and retention across international boundaries by providing a procedure to bring about their prompt return.(En Español)
• International Child Abduction Database (INCADAT) of court cases: Established by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference with the object of making accessible many of the leading decisions taken by national courts in regards to the 1980 Hague Convention.

Legal and Social Science Publications:

• Comprehensive Hague Convention bibliographies by topic areas
• Regional and National Focused Publications
• Kaye, M. (1999). The Hague convention and the flight from domestic violence: how women and children are being returned by coach and four (abstract). International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 13(2), 191-212.
• Shetty, S. & Edleson, J.L. (2005). Adult domestic violence in cases of international parental child abduction. Violence Against Women, 11, 115-138.
• Weiner, M.H. (2000). International child abduction and the escape from domestic violence, Fordham Law Review, 69, 593
• Weiner, M.H. (2004). Strengthening Article 20. University of San Francisco Law Review, 38, 701-746.
• Weiner, M.H. (2008). Half-truths, mistakes, and embarrassments: The United States goes to the Fifth Meeting of the Special Commission to Review the Operation of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Utah Law Review 221-313.