TY - JOUR
AU - Berman, Harold J.
AB - 65 2 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW five conferences held during 1957-1958 sions in which the Laws of Marriage and Divorce applicable in both the under the UNESC O program—namely, West Indies and the British Common­ the Munich conference of political scien­ wealth were discussed. Within the tists, die Moscow conference of sociolo­ groups a great number of subjects were gists, the two Rome conferences of developed. Such subjects as Rights of jurists, and the Bursa, Turkey, con­ Spouses, Ease or Difficulty of obtaining ference of economists. At the Prague divorces under present Divorce Laws, conference, it was generally agreed that the differences existing among the vari­ the principle adopted previously of ous parts of the Commonwealth as to 50-50 participation of "East" and formalities of contracting marriages and "West" should be abandoned in the attitudes toward divorce were examined future. Indeed, the Prague conference in the Marriage group. One topic which itself reflected a shift in policy in that evoked considerable discussion was respect, since there were present par­ whether consent divorces should be ticipants from Egypt, India, Israel, and permissible, especially where there were Japan, as well as from Czechoslovakia, no children of the marriage. In 
TI - Reports: UNESCO Interdisciplinary Conference on International Understanding
JF - American Journal of Comparative Law
DO - 10.1093/ajcl/7.4.652
DA - 1958-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/reports-unesco-interdisciplinary-conference-on-international-IP3unb0Itc
SP - 652
EP - 653
VL - 7
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -