Oreskovic: International Adoption - Corruption and Regulation
The current legal framework within which international adoptions are conducted lacks the capacity to ensure that the adoption process is transparent or ethical, or even that it comports with U.S. immigration law. Jurisdiction for international adoptions is split, in a haphazard fashion, between the Departments of Homeland Security, the Department of State, and the individual states. Despite a number of highly publicized scandals involving the trafficking of children for international adoptions, there is no U.S. federal law that criminalizes human trafficking for purposes of adoption.
Johanna Oreskovic is director of Post-Professional Education at UB Law School. She has been interested in international adoption for a number of years and in particular, in issues of ethics and transparency in the international adoption process. She is a graduate of UB Law School and is admitted to practice in New York and the Western District of New York. She has previously published articles in American labor history and American labor law, most recently, “Capturing Volition Itself: Employee Involvement and the TEAM Act,” in the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law.
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