Prof. Olga Khazova,\u00a0<\/strong>member of the UN CRC Committee (2013-2021), is currently affiliated with the Moscow School of Social & Economic Sciences. In 2018-2022, she also taught a course on International Family Law at the National Research University \u201cHigher School of Economics\u201d (Moscow). Until 2018, for more than 30 years, Olga had been working at the Institute of State & Law within Russian Academy of Sciences. She holds Ph.D. from that Institute and LL.M. from Cornell University Law School (USA). The main field of her expertise is connected with international family law and child law. Apart from teaching, Olga serves as a consultant on matters related to children\u2019s rights and family law, including human reproduction issues.\u00a0 Olga is the author of\u00a0Marriage and Divorce in Western Family Law<\/em>, as well as of numerous scholarly articles published in Russia and abroad. She is a Vice-President of the International Society of Family Law (ISFL). In 2022, Olga was elected as a member of Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”11941″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742219751020{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Marilyn Freeman<\/span><\/strong><\/span> Her\u00a0main field of research<\/strong>\u00a0is EU private international law, with a focus on family matters.<\/p>\n She is currently working on three\u00a0research projects<\/strong>\u00a0concerning filiation<\/strong>\u00a0(an European project co-financed by the EU, \u201cUniPar\u201d –\u00a0https:\/\/www.pravos.unios.hr\/unipar\/<\/a><\/u>; an international project financed by the Swiss National Science foundation, \u201cJust bonding\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/data.snf.ch\/grants\/grant\/220287<\/a><\/u>; a national project financed by the Italian Ministry of University, \u201cFluidity in Family Structures \u2013 International and EU law challenges on parentage matters\u201d\u00a0https:\/\/flufam.prin.unige.it<\/a><\/u>) and\u00a0one research project concerning mediation in child abduction proceedings<\/strong>\u00a0(a project co-finance by the EU, iCare2 \u2013 Better judicial cooperation and family mediation in child abduction cases –\u00a0https:\/\/project-icare.eu<\/a><\/u>).<\/p>\n Withe reference to the topic of the conference, beside the chapter she co-authored with Ester di Napoli on \u201cInternational adoption and cross-border pacement of children\u201d, her main\u00a0publications<\/strong>\u00a0(in English language) are the following:<\/p>\n
\nUniversity of Westminster[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1714411811039-d242ff40-94df1ba1-87e89758-5c32b11b-4729″][vc_column_text]Professor Marilyn Freeman B.A (Hons), LL.M, PhD, is Co-Director of the International Centre for Family Law, Policy and Practice (ICFLPP), Principal Research Fellow at The Westminster Law School, Chairperson of the International Association of Child Law Researchers (IACLaR), and Academic Door Tenant at 4PB, a leading set of specialist family law barristers\u2019 chambers in London. She is acknowledged as a leading expert in international child abduction and international children\u2019s law. Her research on the Long-Term Effects of International Child Abduction is a seminal work, widely cited and used. Her recent research (undertaken together with Professor Nicola Taylor, University of Otago, New Zealand) on domestic violence in the context of international child abduction cases, published in May 2024, has been similarly well received, and was circulated for the attention of all participants at the Forum on Domestic Violence held by The Hague Conference on Private International Law in Sandton, South Africa in June 2024. Her most recent work relates to identity and selfhood for children and young people in the field of international family law. The book on this subject, which she co-edited with Professor Nicola Taylor, will be published in May 2025: Children\u2019s Right to Identity, Selfhood and International Family Law <\/em>(Edward Elgar, 2025).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”11917″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742219797831{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Nicola Taylor<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nUniversity of Otago[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404609749{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1714411810216-f437112c-ab9d1ba1-87e89758-5c32b11b-4729″][vc_column_text]Professor Nicola Taylor<\/strong> is the Professor of Child and Family Law and Director of the Children\u2019s Issues Centre in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She also holds the Alexander McMillan Leading Thinker Chair in Childhood Studies, is Secretary of the International Association of Child Law Researchers, and an Associate Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL). Nicola has been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and is a qualified mediator. She is a leading socio-legal researcher and has undertaken many studies with children, parents and professionals on family law and children\u2019s rights issues including\u00a0post-separation\u00a0care arrangements, relocation, international child abduction, children\u2019s views and participation, child-inclusive practice, family dispute resolution, children\u2019s citizenship and nation-building, children\u2019s identity issues in international family law contexts, relationship property division and succession law. Nicola\u2019s research findings have been invaluable in informing legislative, legal policy and professional practice developments within New Zealand and internationally. She has recently co-edited two books with Marilyn Freeman, the Research Handbook on International Child Abduction<\/em>: The 1980 Hague Convention<\/em> (Edward Elgar, 2023) and Children\u2019s Right to Identity, Selfhood and International Family Law <\/em>(Edward Elgar, 2025).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”12006″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742219867590{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
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\nUniversity of Nottingham[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404620072{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1714411810645-d23c6167-69c51ba1-87e89758-5c32b11b-4729″][vc_column_text]Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan is a professor of education specialising in professional learning, self-reflexive scholarship, and arts-based educational research. She is committed to advancing research paradigms that recognise contributions from the Global South and promote meaningful transnational collaboration. As an advocate for leveraging the arts in education, she emphasises their potential to support educational development and advance social justice.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1715320959069{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”12433″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1749635214946{margin-top: 15px !important;}”]Laura Carpaneto<\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\nAssociate professor of EU law at the University of Genoa[\/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion c_icon=”triangle” c_position=”right” active_section=”99″ collapsible_all=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1714404628742{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_tta_section title=”Biography” tab_id=”1727087955578-cf591cdf-294a9758-5c32b11b-4729″][vc_column_text]Laura Carpaneto is Associate professor of EU law at the University of Genoa.<\/p>\n\n