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18 Law & Sexuality: Rev. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Legal Issues 121 (2009)
From Frette to E.B.: The European Court of Human Rights on Gay and Lesbian Adoption

handle is hein.journals/lsex18 and id is 123 raw text is: From Frett6to EB.: The European Court of Human Rights on Gay and Lesbian Adoption Kathleen A. Doty* INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................... 12 1 I. B ACKGROUND ................................................................................... 122 A. The Council ofEurope, the Convention for the Protection ofHuman Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, and the European Court ofHuman Rights .......... 122 B. The European Court ofHuman Rights 'Protection of LGBT People and Families .................................................... 124 C Lesbian and Gay Families andA doption ............................... 124 II. EB.VFRANCE. A SEA CHANGE ..................................................... 129 A. The ECHtR Overrules Frett6 v. France ................................... 131 B. The ECI R sAnalysis ............................................................. 132 III. W HAT H APPENED? ........................................................................... 133 IV W HAT N EX T? .................................................................................... 136 A. The European Legislative Model for Recognition of L G B T R ghts ........................................................................... 137 B. The Current State ofLGBTRelationshi Recognition andA ccess to Parenting .......................................................... 137 C The Court's Move: Outside the Box ..................................... 139 V C ON CLU SION .................................................................................... 14 1 INTRODUCTION European nations, while progressive in many areas pertaining to gay and lesbian family law, have been slow to recognize the rights of gay individuals or same-sex couples to adopt children. In January of 2008, however, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held in E.B. v * © 2009 Kathleen A. Doty. Clerk to the Honorable Alexa D.M. Fujise, Associate Judge, Hawai'i Intermediate Court of Appeals, 2008-2009; Fellow at the California International Law Center, 2009-20 10; J.D. 2008, University of California, Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall); B.A. 2003, Smith College. I would like to thank the National LGBT Bar Association for honoring this Article with First Runner-up in the 2008 Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition. Thanks also to Professor Courtney Joslin for her insightful Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the Law course and for her comments on this Article; to Professor Diane Marie Amann for her mentorship; to friends Meredith Wallis and Nicole Papincak for their support; and to Camille Wojtasiak, for everything.

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