Protecting Family Life and Children’s Rights
Date: 24 February 2026
Time: 09:00
Duration: 2 half days
Location: Online
Cost: € 550.00 // € 495.00 (Registration by 24 January)
Organiser: ERA - Academy of European Law
Web Link: https://www.era.int/event/protecting-family-life-and-childrens-rights/
Description:
Objective
This online conference will discuss recent developments in family law, focusing primarily on the intersection between family law and human rights standards.
Participants will gain insight into landmark judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), addressing critical issues such as the child’s right to be heard, international child abduction, foster care frameworks, and adoption processes.
Additionally, the conference will explore emerging topics including legal recognition of co-motherhood, as well as gender re-assignment and surrogacy.
Key topics
- The child’s right to be heard: landmark decision;
- Child abduction within a human rights framework;
- Foster care and adoption;
- Co-motherhood;
- Gender identity;
- Surrogacy: new case law and legislation.
Who should attend?
Family lawyers, lawyers in private practice and judges involved in family litigation, ministry officials, representatives of NGOs and children’s rights organisations, academics.
Interactive Online Seminar
The online seminar will be hosted on the Zoom videoconferencing platform. You will be able to interact immediately and directly with our top-level speakers and other participants. We will make the most of the technical tools available to deliver an intensive, interactive experience. The highest security settings will be applied to ensure that you can participate safely in this high-quality online seminar.
