Family Law Across Borders
Cases and Comments
West Academic, 2021.
(Co-authored with Melissa Kucinski and Mike Coffee.)
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Modern Family Law in print
Legal Solutions for Growing Families
Modern Family Law in action
Modern Family Law
Since 2016, Bruce Hale has worked to implement new parentage laws to address the specific needs of children born through assisted reproduction and their families. In 2024, at the end of the legislative session, the Massachusetts Parentage Act was enacted. This was an important accomplishment by the Massachusetts Parentage Coalition, and will provide much needed protections for children and families.
Bruce Hale was part of the team that put together the International Surrogacy Forum 2019, held at the University of Cambridge in June 2019. This 2-day event was extremely well received by the delegates who attended, and is expected to have a lasting contribution to the ongoing worldwide discussion about surrogacy. Bruce spoke at the Second International Surrogacy Forum, June 2023 in Copenhagen and is on the organizing committee for the Third International Surrogacy Forum to be held in March 2025 in Cape Town.
The American Bar Association, one of the largest groups of lawyers, has adopted a position on international surrogacy arrangements. Bruce Hale was one of the principal drafters of this position (along with Stephen Page), which protects children through stability of parentage determinations while upholding the reproductive rights of the adults involved. The position helps to inform the US Department of State as it works with the Hague Conference on Private International Law to explore options for regulating international surrogacy. To see the resolution approved by the ABA, click here (PDF).
Assisted Reproductive Technology:
A Lawyer's Guide to Emerging Law and Science, Third Edition.
ABA Publishing, 2018.
(Co-authored with Maureen McBrien.)
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A Call for Comity, Juriste International, 2019-1, May 2019 (link opens as PDF)
Whose Rights are they, Anyway ?, The SciTech Lawyer, Vol. 12 Issue 4, Summer 2016 (co-authored with Stephen Page).
Intending Parenthood, Family Advocate (published by the ABA Section of Family Law), Summer 2016.
Bruce Hale was profiled in Northeastern Law Magazine, (published by Northeastern University School of Law), summer 2016, for his work with the ABA in creating an official ABA position on regulation of international surrogacy. (He was also interviewed in this edition of the same magazine for an article about the topic.)
Scholarly publication :
Regulation of International Surrogacy Arrangements, 36 Suffolk Transnat'l L. Rev. 501 (Abstract can be viewed here or here.)