Prof. Rhona Schuz

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Professor Rhona Schuz is a world expert on international child abduction and has written one of the leading books on this topic. She represented the International Society of Family Law at the Sixth and Seventh Special Commissions of the Hague Conference on Private International Law on the Practical Operation of the 1980 Child Abduction Convention and the 1996 Child Protection Convention (2011-2012 and 2017).

In 2023, Professor Schuz was awarded a research grant from the Israeli Science Fund for a project on the topic:- Socio-Legal Rethinking of the Hague Child Abduction Convention: Israel as a case study.

Prof. Schuz participated in the international “Rewriting Children’s Rights Judgments” project (2015-2017) and is an active member of the International Association of Child Law Research. She has written about various aspects of children’s rights: including the child’s participation rights; the child’s right to be brought up by his biological parents and the misuse of children’s rights discourse in the political arena. She was appointed by the Minister of Justice as a member of the Shifman Committee on the Reform of Child Support in Israel (2006-2012).

Professor Schuz has also researched topics in private international law: including  applicable law rules in relation to tort and matrimonial property; the closest connection approach in Israeli caselaw and the use and interpretation of personal connecting factors in Israeli law.

Before joining the College for Science and Law in 2001, Professor Schuz was a lecturer in law at Nottingham University, the London School of Economics and Bar Ilan University. In 2014 she was a visiting Professor at the University of Vienna.

השכלה

תואר שלישי במשפטים,  London School of Economics (אוניברסיטת לונדון) (1997)

תואר שני במשפטים בהצטיינות יתרה (first class) (LL.M.), אוניברסיטת קימבריג’, (1980)

תואר ראשון במשפטים בהצטיינות יצירה  (, B.A. first class), הפקולטה למשפטים, אוניברסיטת קימבריג תל-אביב (1979).

תחומי הוראה והתמחויות

חטיפת ילדים בינלאומית
משפט בינלאומי פרטי
דיני הורים וילדים
הולדה משפט ואתיקה
דיני משפחה במשפט הבינלאומי

 

פרסים

Gostella Scholarship (1995-1998)

פרסומים נבחרים

Books:-

“The Hague Child Abduction Convention – A Critical Analysis” (Hart, 2013)

“A Modern Approach to the Incidental Question in the Conflict of Laws” (1997, Kluwer).

Articles (In Reverse Chronological Order):

“Israel” in Claire Fenton Glynn (ed) “Cambridge Parenthood Project” (Intersentia, 2025)

“International Relocation After Relationship Breakdown” in Janeen Caruthers and Bobby Lindsay (eds) RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL FAMILY LAW (Intersentia, 2024)

“Habitual Residence: Review of Developments and Proposed Guidelines,” LAWS 12, 62 (2023).

“Child Participation and the Child Objection Exception” in Marilyn Freeman and Nicola Taylor (eds), RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION (Intersentia, 2023) 115.

“Matrimonial Property” in Paul Beaumont, Anatol Dutta, Mary Keyes, Ralf Michaels and Symeon Symeonides  (eds),GUIDE TO GLOBAL PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW (Hart, 2022) 525.

Child Participation in Custody Litigation – The Israeli Experience” in Marilyn Freeman et al (ed), INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON CHILD PARTICIPATION (Intersentia, 2021) 205(together with Dr. Tamar Morag)

“The Hague Child Abduction Convention and Re-Relocation Disputes,”  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, POLICY AND THE FAMILY Vol 35, 1-36 (2021)

“Surrogacy in Israel” in Sherpe and Fenton Glynn  (eds), Eastern and Western  Perspectives on Surrogacy  (2019, Intersentia), 165-184.

“Choice of Law in Relation to Matrimonial Property in the Twenty First Century” JOURNAL OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW Vol 15, 1-49 (2019)

“The Dangers of Children’s Rights’ Discourse in the Political Arena:  the Issue of Religious Male Circumcision as a Test Case,”  CARDOZO JOURNAL OF LAW AND GENDER  Vol. 21, 347 (2015).

“Lessons from Choice of Law in Tort in Israel: The Rise and Fall of the “Contacts” Approach; the Fortuitousness Exception and Rejection of the Common Habitual Residence Exception,” JOURNAL OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW Vol. 11, (2015).

“The Doctrine of Comity in the Age of Globalization: Between International Child Abduction and Cross-Border Insolvency”, BROOKLYN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Vol. 40, 33 (2014).

“Between Tort Law, Contract Law and Child Law: How to Compensate the Left-Behind Parent in International Child Abduction Cases (together with Binyamin Shmueli) 23 COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND LAW 64 (2012).

“Three Years On: An Analysis of the Delegalisation of Physical Punishment of Children by the Israeli Court”, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS Vol. 11 (2003) 235

“The Hague Child Abduction Convention and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child”  TRANSNATIONAL LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS Vol. 12  (2002), 393.

 “Habitual Residence of  Children under the Hague Child Abduction Convention: Theory and Practice”  CHILD AND FAMILY LAW QUARTERLY Vol 13 (2001)

“Private International Law at the End of the Twentieth Century: Progress or Regress?” Israeli Reports to the XV International Congress of Comparative Law  (1999).

“The Hague Convention on Child Abduction, Family Law and Private International Law” (1995) 44 INTERNATIONAL   AND COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY 771

“Controlling Forum‑Shopping: The Impact of MacShannon v Rockware Glass Ltd.”  (1986) 35 INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY 374