The 3rd Petar Sarcevic conference on family law

The Third International Scientific Conference Petar Sarcevic: Family and Children – European Expectations and National Reality will take place in Opatija, Croatia, on 20-21 September 2013. The programme of this conference includes the following speakers and topics:

Friday, 20 September

Prof. Dr. KATARINA BOELE-WOELKI
Utrecht University
Family Law in Europe: Past, Present, Future – Keynote Address

Dr. BRANKA RESETAR
J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
European Principles on Parental Responsibility in the 2013 Draft Family Act

Prof. Dr. NENAD HLACA
University of Rijeka
Misuse of the Right to Family Reunification

Prof. Dr. AUKJE VAN HOEK
University of Amsterdam
Mediation in Family Matters with a Cross-Border Element – The Dutch Experience

Saturday, 21 September

Prof. PAUL BEAUMONT
Aberdeen University
A Possible Framework for a Hague Convention on International Surrogacy

Prof. Dr. COSTANZA HONORATI
University of Milano-Bicocca
The New Italian Provisions on Unicity of Status Filiationis and their PIL Implications

Dr. INES MEDIC MUSA
University of Split
Cross-Border Placement of a Child under the 1996 Hague Convention and the Brussels II Regulation

Dr. MIRELA ZUPAN
J. J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Key Issues in the Application of the Maintenance Regulation

Dr. PATRICIA OREJUDO PRIETO DE LOS MOZOS
Compultense University of Madrid
Matrimonial Crisis under the Brussels II Regulation

Dr. THALIA KRUGER
University of Antwerp
Partners Limping Accross Borders?

Prof. Dr. VESNA TOMLJENOVIC and Dr. IVANA KUNDA
EU General Court, University of Rijeka
Rome III: Is it Right for Croatia?

The conference is scheduled to commence at 4 pm on Friday 20 September and continue the next morning at the hotel 4 opatijska cvijeta, with privileged prices for the conference attendees sending this accommodation form. The registration form for the conference should be sent to zeup@pravri.hr just as any questions regarding the conference. Here are also the details regarding the payment of the conference fee.

This conference follows the two Petar Sarcevic conferences reported previously, the first on the Brussels I Regulation and the second on maritime law. There seems to be no better topic for the third conference devoted to Petar Sarcevic than family law. His academic interests focused not only on private international law but extensively also on family law. In 1998 he became an associate member and in 2001 full member of the prestigious Institut de droit international and was appointed as Rapporteur of the Fourth Commission on the topic “Registered Partnership in Private International Law”. He was a member of numerous other international associations, including the International Society of Family Law, where he served as its president from 1997 to 2000 and member of the Executive Council for almost 15 years. Unfortunately, he was unable to lecture at The Hague Academy of International Law on the topic “Private International Law Aspects of Cohabitation Without Formal Marriage” in July 2005.