Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction

KATARINA TRIMMINGS is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Aberdeen, and the Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law. She has written extensively on cross-border parental child abduction, and published a monograph titled Child Abduction within the European Union (Hart Publishing, 2013), and is one of the authors of the 15th edition of Cheshire’s Private International Law (Oxford University Press, 2017). She led the EU-funded project ‘Protection of Abducting Mothers in Return Proceedings: Intersection between Domestic Violence and Parental Child Abduction’ (POAM, 2019-2021). ANATOL DUTTA holds a Chair of Private Law, Private International Law and Comparative Law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Previously, he was Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg (2003-2014) and was Professor at the University of Regensburg (2014-2017). Anatol Dutta is a member of the editorial board of Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht (FamRZ), a leading family law journal for practitioners and academics in Germany and is a member of the German Council of Private International Law. He has a special interest in family and succession law, from a private international law as well as a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. COSTANZA HONORATI is a Full Professor of European Union Law at the Milano-Bicocca University, School of Law where she also holds the Chair of EU Private International Law. She has been Co-ordinator of the PhD Program in European Union Law since 2017 and was the Head of the PhD School between 2009 and 2013. She is currently Chair of the EU Commission’s Working Group on a Guide to the Maintenance Regulation and was previously a member of the Expert Group assisting the Commission on the Recast of the Brussels IIa Regulation (2015). She has been a Visiting Scholar and Visiting Professor at several institutions). She is a member of the Editorial Board of Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale and the Special Editor for private international law of European Papers. MIRELA ŽUPAN is a Full Professor at the University of Osijek, Faculty of Law, and Head of the PhD Programme in Law. Her main professional interests include private international law of family and contractual matters, as well as the impacts of ICT on law and the protection of the vulnerable (children, adults, companion animals). She was awarded the Max-Planck Society Doctoral and Postdoctoral Grant from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. As a member of several research groups, she has organised and participated in conferences, seminars and workshops, and has published a number of books, chapters and papers. She has acted as a member of the Expert Group assisting the Commission on the Recast of the Brussels IIa Regulation and was nominated as a national reporter for European Commission studies.