Welcome to the 9th World Congress on Family Law & Children’s Rights, to be held in Cambridge, United Kingdom from 27-30 July 2025 in partnership with the Faculty of Law and the University of Cambridge.
The theme of this congress is Children Caught in Conflict - Inspiring Positive Change.
Key Dates Abstract submission opensJune 5th, 2024 Deadline for speaker registration and payment January 6th, 2025 Standard registration deadline June 27th, 2025 Full paper submission deadline June 30th, 2025 Late registration fee introduced June 28th, 2025 |
The Congress is a major international event, held every 4 years, focussing on the rights of children and youth, and family law and family law processes. In the current geopolitical environment, nothing is more important than the rights of children caught in many conflicts including inter-familial conflicts, identity issues, environmental conflicts, on-line predators, bullying and those tragically caught up in theatres of war. There is no more important time to confront these challenges and try to find solutions.
The World Congress provides a platform for the convergence of all stakeholders – not just lawyers – in the legal, advocacy and children’s rights sectors. Including but not limited to…
Lawyers
Government
Medical professionals
Judges
Non-government associations
Social scientists
Academics
Psychologists
All with a common interest in the active protection of children and in sharing best practices to promote the rights of children and family law issues.
World Congress on Family Law & Children’s Rights 2025 Patron: The Right Honourable Baroness Hale of Richmond, Former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
The World Congress is honoured to announce that
The Right Honourable Baroness Hale of Richmond is this year’s
Patron of the World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights.
Lady Hale retired as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in January 2020, following a distinguished and trailblazing career. She began her legal journey as an academic at the University of Manchester and was, for a time, also a practising barrister. She was then the first woman appointed to the Law Commission. Her judicial career has been marked by landmark decisions, most notably the 2019 judgment on the unlawful prorogation of the UK Parliament.
In retirement, Lady Hale has continued to influence the legal and broader community through speaking engagements, writing, and advocacy. Her memoir, Spider Woman: A Life, published in 2021, reflects on her personal and professional journey, including her lifelong commitment to justice and equality.
The Board is deeply grateful for Lady Hale’s longstanding support of the World Congress and believes her appointment reflects a shared vision to promote and protect the rights of children and families around the globe.
Her dedication to these values makes her an inspiring and fitting Patron for the 2025 conference in Cambridge, UK.
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Located in the wonderful medieval city of Cambridge, the Conference will examine a range of topics such as:
- Children and the justice system
- Child protection
- Children’s rights and the modern family
- Children in situations of vulnerability
- Children and identity
- Gender, disability, equality and equity
- Children’s digital rights
- Transparency and innovation in family court proceedings
- Digital advances in resolving family disputes
- Non-court dispute resolution processes including for cross-border families and children
- Family violence and violence against women including coercive control
- Sustainable development, the environment and children’s rights
- Poverty and children’s rights
- Child trafficking, forced marriage, female genital mutilation and exploitation of children
- Regional and international protection of children’s rights
- Children affected by war and other internecine conflicts
In addition, in a world of highly mobile families, the conference will give attention to the ways in which family law meets the various needs of families in whatever form, in order to provide a structure which can effectively and justly provide for its members who are the subject of relationship breakdown.
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