An adoption in which parents domiciled in one nation travel to a foreign country to adopt a child there, usu. in accordance with the laws of the child’s nation. • International adoptions first became popular after World War II and escalated after the Korean Conflict because of the efforts of humanitarian programs working to find […]
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international legislation. Int’l law. 1. Law-making among countries or intergovernmental organizations, displaying structural and procedural characteristics that are the same as national legislation. 2. The product of any concerted effort to change international law by statute. 3. The process of trying to change international law by statute. 4. Loosely, the adoption by international bodies of
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Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. A 1993 international agreement to establish uniform procedures governing intercountry adoptions. • The Convention has not been widely accepted. The U.S. has signed but not ratified it.
bellum justum (bel-[schwa]m j[schwa]s-t[schwa]m). [Latin] Int’l law. A just war; one that the proponent considers morally and legally justifiable, such as a war against an aggressive, totalitarian regime. • Under Roman law, before war could be declared, the fetiales (a group of priests who monitored international treaties) had to certify to the Senate that just
filibuster (fil-[schwa]-b[schwa]s-t[schwa]r), n. 1. A dilatory tactic, esp. prolonged and often irrelevant speechmaking, employed in an attempt to obstruct legislative action. • The filibuster is common in the U.S. Senate, where the right to debate is usu. unlimited and where a filibuster can be terminated only by a cloture vote of two-thirds of all members.