Research & Working Papers
Long-form legal analysis, policy dossiers, and practitioner tools on German family law, Jugendamt practice, cross-border custody, and human-rights accountability.
Working Paper No. 2 · May 2026
The Jugendamt-Stellungnahme as Procedural Shield
How procedural gaps, unrecorded interviews, hearsay laundering, language-access failures and unstructured Kindeswohl reasoning can be embedded upstream in a Jugendamt report before they appear in a family-court order.
Briefing Dossier · May 2026
The German Custody Data Gap
Briefing dossier comparing German custody-data opacity with more transparent jurisdictions and supporting PETI-level transparency advocacy.