ABSTRACT

Surrogacy presents particularly complex questions for human rights law and theory. This book provides a unique and insightful examination into the underexplored issues of how domestic and international law is responding to the sharp increase in the use of surrogacy. The work presents critical analysis of the current regulation of surrogacy via domestic law in Australia, India and the USA, and international law in the form of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Including a wide range of views from academics and practitioners around the world, the contributors consider what could be done to further protect the rights of all persons involved in surrogacy arrangements. This in-depth study of the international and domestic law governing surrogacy provides much needed scholarly knowledge of this contemporary phenomenon, along with recommendations for improvement, regulation and reform. The book will be of great importance to human rights and legal scholars, and well as practitioners in this field.

chapter |8 pages

Surrogacy and Human Rights

Contemporary, Complex, Contested and Controversial

chapter |4 pages

Surrogacy

A Personal Perspective

chapter |34 pages

Through the Looking-Glass

A Proposal for National Reform of Australia's Surrogacy Legislation

chapter |16 pages

Extra-Territoriality and Surrogacy

The Problem of State and Territory Moral Sovereignty

chapter |32 pages

Souls in the House of Tomorrow

The Rights of Children Born via Surrogacy

chapter |32 pages

The Surrogate in Commercial Surrogacy

Legal and Ethical Considerations

chapter |26 pages

Surrogacy in India

Strong Demand, Weak Laws

chapter |24 pages

Surrogacy

American Style