PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY LAWS REVIEWED

Imposing legal responsibility on parents for the antisocial behavior of their children has long been tempting to legislators. The serious problems inherent in such laws are presented in the following appraisal, excerpted with permission from the Pittsburgh Law Review, Volume 30 No. 3.     

DEFINING PARENTING COORDINATION WITH STATE LAWS

Parenting coordination is a new trend in defining ADR interventions to help reduce parenting conflicts between court‐involved parents. This writing identifies core elements of parenting coordination as defined by various current state statutes and the AFCC Guidelines for Parenting Coordination. Exploration of the formalization of parenting coordination provides heuristic reading for those initiating statutory regulations in other states as well as the possibility for development of a uniform law.     

PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CHINA'S CONFLICT OF LAWS

China's new private international law adds choice of law provisions for property.Most of the provisions are innovative.They further clarify the general legal provisions applicable to property with a focus on regulating movable property and commercial securities.The choice of law rules for property comply with relevant international legislation as far as possible.At the time,certain individual provisions are not well drafted and they are inconsistent with current domestic substantive laws.The principle of parties' autonomy was first introduced to the fieM of "movable property"and "movable property in transit,"but it seems goes too far.In light of the gradual opening up of China's securities market,the new law stipulates applicable laws to commercial securities,but it did not take into account the indirect holding system of securities.