Photo of Lara WalkerLara Walker
Senior Lecturer in Law (Sussex European Institute)

Selected publications

Article

Walker, Lara (2018) Party autonomy, inconsistency and the specific characteristics of family law in the EU. Journal of Private International Law, 14 (2). pp. 225-261. ISSN 1744-1048

Beaumont, Paul, Walker, Lara and Holliday, Jayne (2016) Parental responsibility and international child abduction in the proposed recast of Brussels IIa Regulation and the effect of Brexit on future child abduction proceedings. International Family Law Journal, Nov. pp. 307-318. ISSN 1369-5762

Beaumont, Paul, Walker, Lara and Holliday, Jayne (2016) Conflicts of EU courts on child abduction: the reality of Art 11(6)-(8) Brussels IIa proceedings across the EU. Journal of Private International Law, 12 (2). pp. 211-260. ISSN 1744-1048

Beaumont, Paul, Walker, Lara and Holliday, Jayne (2015) Not heard and not returned: the reality of Article 11(8) proceedings. International Family Law (2). pp. 124-133. ISSN 1369-5762

Beaumont, Paul and Walker, Lara (2015) Recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters in the Brussels I recast, and some lessons from it and the recent Hague Conventions for the Hague Judgments Project. Journal of Private International Law, 11 (1). pp. 31-63. ISSN 1744-1048

Beaumont, Paul, Trimmings, Katarina, Walker, Lara and Holliday, Jayne (2015) Child abduction: recent jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 64 (1). pp. 39-63. ISSN 0020-5893

Walker, Lara (2015) Intercountry adoption and the best interests of the child: The Hague Convention 1993 and the importance of bonding. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 27 (4). pp. 355-376. ISSN 1358-8184

Walker, Lara (2013) From Brussels I and the Maintenance Convention to the Maintenance Regulation: is the resulting Maintenance Regulation consistent with the other EU PIL instruments? Nederlands International Privaatrecht, 31 (2). pp. 167-175. ISSN 0167-7594

Walker, Lara and Beaumont, Paul (2011) Shifting the balance achieved by the Abduction Convention: the contrasting approaches of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice. Journal of Private International Law, 7 (2). pp. 231-249. ISSN 1744-1048

Walker, Lara (2010) The impact of the Hague Abduction Convention on the rights of the family in the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee: the danger of Neulinger. Journal of Private International Law, 6 (3). pp. 649-682. ISSN 1744-1048

Walker, Lara (2010) The Relationship between BIIR and the Hague Convention: Detiček v Sgueglia. International Family Law. pp. 203-206. ISSN 1369-5762

Book

Torremans, Paul, Grušić, Uglješa, Heinze, Christian, Merrett, Louise, Mills, Alex, García-Castrillón, Carmen Otero, Tang, Zheng, Trimmings, Katarina, Walker, Lara and Fawcett, James (2017) Cheshire, North and Fawcett: Private international law. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199678990

Walker, Lara (2015) Maintenance and child support in private international law. Studies in private international law . Hart Publishing, Oxford. ISBN 9781849467179

Book Section

Walker, Lara (2017) New (and old) problems for maintenance creditors under the Maintenance Regulation. In: Beaumont, Paul, Danov, Mihail, Trimmings, Katarina and Yuskel, Burcu (eds.) Cross-border litigation in Europe. Studies in Private International Law . Hart Publishing, pp. 771-785. ISBN 9781782256786

Walker, Lara and Beaumont, Paul (2014) Empirical study on the early operation of the EU maintenance regulation. In: Beaumont, Paul, Hess, Burkhard, Walker, Lara and Spancken, Stefanie (eds.) The recovery of maintenance in the EU and worldwide. Studies in private international law . Hart, Oxford. ISBN 9781849465731

Walker, Lara (2014) The right to health and access to health care in Saudi Arabia with a particular focus on women and migrants. In: Toebes, Brigit, Ferguson, Rhonda, Markovic, Milan and Nnamuchi, Obiajulu (eds.) The right to health: a multi-country study of law, policy and practice. Asser Press, The Hague, pp. 165-192. ISBN 9789462650138

Walker, Lara and Beaumont, Paul (2013) Post Neulinger case law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Hague Child Abduction Convention. In: The Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private Internat, (ed.) A commitment to private international law: essays in honour of Hans van Loon. Intersentia, Cambridge, pp. 17-30. ISBN 9781780681504

Edited Book

Beaumont, Paul, Hess, Burkhard, Walker, Lara and Spancken, Stefanie (2014) The recovery of maintenance in the EU and worldwide. Studies in private international law . Hart, Oxford. ISBN 9781849465731

Reports and working papers

Beaumont, Paul, Walker, Lara and Holliday, Jayne (2016) Conflicts of EU Courts on Child Abduction: Country Reports. Project Report. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland.