July 2019

• Published date: 01 July 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12416
• Date: 01 July 2019

EDITORIAL NOTE

JULY 2019

It is summer and a time many people like to travel! This special issue of Family Court Review

transports you through Europe, without the need for you to leave your house. Janet Walker and

Gabriela Misca have compiled an extraordinary body of work celebrating a collaboration between

AFCC and RELATE, an organization in England and Wales they describe in their Introduction. The

seventeen articles (yes, seventeen!) detailing “Family Justice Innovations in Europe”include develop-

ments in England, Ireland, Holland, Spain, Sweden, Germany, and Wales, to name but a few countries.

Janet’s and Gabriela’sIntroduction,“Partnership in Practice: European Perspectives,”so thoroughly

describes the special issue that there is no need for us to repeat it. We are grateful to the guest editors

for their extremely diligent efforts that result in an education and new cultural appreciations for all of

us as we read these important pieces. Thank you, Janet and Gabriela, and thank you to the authors!

Louise Lingat’s student Note, “Keeping the Family Together: Why New York Must Amend Evi-

dence Rules to Protect a Parent’s Right to Be a Parent,”tackles a salient aspect of hearsay state-

ments. She focuses on child protection proceedings and the admission into evidence of out of court

statements by children. After comparing New York’s hearsay exception statute to those of other

states, she makes the case for tightening the New York statute to allow for a more thorough vetting

of out of court statements by children.

We hope you enjoy this special issue and your European travels! Once again, we wish to thank

Janet Walker and Gabriela Misca for their significant contribution.

Barbara A. Babb

Editor in Chief

University of Baltimore School of Law

Baltimore, Maryland

Marsha Kline Pruett

Social Science Editor

Smith College School for Social Work

Northampton, Massachusetts

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