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positions (2021) 29 (3): 495–521.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Sungyun Lim Abstract This article examines false registration as a method of domestic adoption in South Korea. The article argues that the practice of falsely registering adoptees as natural births in the family registry emerged in response to the highly restrictive adoption laws in South Korea...
Journal Article
positions (2009) 17 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2009
... should adopt the father’s identity and become a citizen of
his nation is further supported by the 1953 Act Governing the Application
of Law to Civil Matters Involving Foreign Elements, which stipulates that
the law of the country of which...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 469–493.
Published: 01 August 2021
... are believed to prefer younger children. Furthermore, a general perception in Japan is that children older than age six are poor candidates for even foster care because they are too old to be adopted under Japan's special adoption law (which is in revision at the time of writing to increase the age limit...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 453–468.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to democratic legal reforms and organized movements for social and legal change, addressing topics such as adoption laws and practices, the conceptualization of “rights to family” in law and society, and challenges to the legal institutionalization of heteronormativity and patriarchal family privileges. 1 We...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
...,
The claim that social work expertise is crucial to addressing adoption dilemmas is the
central theme of one agency of cial’s response to the Adoption Law passed by Vietnam’s
National Assembly in June The country director of Holt International Children’s...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 129–154.
Published: 01 February 2016
... of commodification and the shifting international availability of chil-
dren. Special needs adoption from China first officially began in September
2000, when laws allowing older and disabled youth to be adopted through
an alternative known as the Waiting...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... Court, approved a special law that legalized marriage for some same-sex couples and allowed a same-sex spouse to adopt the birth child of his or her partner (using a form of stepparent adoption). 4 The special law did not specify any additional family rights, including joint adoption rights for same...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 633–656.
Published: 01 August 2021
... people of the same sex could not share legal parentage of a child (Lin 2013 ). Legalization of same-sex marriage in May 2019 opened the door to co-adoption with important limits. Under this new law, a married same-sex couple may obtain joint parental rights only if the child is biologically related...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (1): 5–50.
Published: 01 February 1999
... as a perfect exemplar of the discipline to be adopted, but the neo-
phyte’s assessment of his or her own success in submitting to the law will
always reveal shortcomings, especially early in the process. Thus, the con-
summation of “subject...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (3): 581–606.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., muko yōshi 婿養子 (son-in-law adoption), represents a practice that existed long before the codification of family structure in the koseki during the Meiji era. The practice created a son for the wife's father as much as a husband for a daughter, in a structure that might be, but never seems...
Journal Article
positions (2022) 30 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2022
... of reasonable doubt and burden of proof. The setting is a law school, after all. Yet old habits die hard. Then, juror #9’s family was vilified as “rightists.” Now, many jurors call the accused young man, the adopted son of a former peasant from Henan who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, fu erdai (富二代...
FIGURES
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positions (2005) 13 (1): 157–167.
Published: 01 February 2005
...). Unfortunately, the adoption of this strategy in Iraq has led
to the disintegration of international political order and has caused many
long-respected policies to be rendered ineffectual overnight. It is difficult to
imagine or estimate what the ultimate...
Journal Article
positions (2016) 24 (1): 281–302.
Published: 01 February 2016
... Africa to match parental racial preferences.
Some interviewees explained that Indian laws are exceedingly commissioning-
parent friendly; because eggs are either extracted from the commissioning
mother or purchased on the market from a third...
Journal Article
positions (1996) 4 (3): 569–594.
Published: 01 August 1996
...-in-law adoption,
mentioned by Dore, suggests first that the affinal tie alone did not qualify
the housedaughter’s husband for succession to the headship, and second
Uno I Questioning Patrilineality 575...
Journal Article
positions (1999) 7 (2): 503–540.
Published: 01 May 1999
... the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs; he wanted to apply the Meiji Constitution and other Japa-
nese laws to Taiwan. The other camp, including Got6 Shinpei (who was to
play an important role in Taiwan), insisted on adopting a “two-systems-one...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (2): 489–510.
Published: 01 May 2010
... for rape, the writer
intended to side with the Wuxi county head and defend his verdict.
The law that the above writer referred to was the criminal code written
in the last days of the Qing period, which was adopted by the new Republi...
Journal Article
positions (2005) 13 (1): 235–252.
Published: 01 February 2005
... to the
devil.
The term terrorist clearly entails a move to dehumanize the enemy. As
Schmitt was keen to point out in The Concept of the Political, the enemy
existed in essence as a “proper enemy” in European common law...
Journal Article
positions (2017) 25 (3): 469–505.
Published: 01 August 2017
... valued men over women, so women’s position
in Taiwan’s traditional society was very low, and a number of bad customs
appeared, such as the practices of adopting girls as future daughters-in-
law or as servants, prostitution...
Journal Article
positions (2012) 20 (2): 659–667.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., and cultural practices across different regions under rapid
globalization. In some postsocialist societies such as Vietnam and China,
even though neoliberal policy is never openly acknowledged in the of cial
state ideology, the adoption of neoliberal...
Journal Article
positions (2008) 16 (1): 79–107.
Published: 01 February 2008
..., as evidenced by the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination
of Violence against Women by the U.N. General Assembly in 1993 and the
adoption of the Beijing Platform of Action at the Fourth World Conference
on Women in 1995.21 After one year’s...
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