The faculty of the Academic College of Law and Science in Israel (“College”),
where the International Society of Family Law’s (ISFL) Regional Conference on
the subject of Children’s Rights and Interests took place, and upon which the
chapters in this volume are based, includes the highest concentration of family
law researchers in Israel and houses a Center for the Rights of the Child
and the Family (“Center”), which is unique in Israel in its commitment to children’s
rights. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Conference reflects the College’s goals of promoting research and serving as a
platform for discussion of current issues relating to the rights of all family members,
and the Center’s mission, which is based on the belief that every child is
entitled to human rights by way of right. The College’s collaboration with the
ISFL expresses its conviction that the insights which can be gleaned from academic
discussion between scholars from different States can provide benefits to
children and families throughout the world.