Private in­ter­na­tion­al law review of in­ter­na­tion­al sur­rog­acy ar­range­ments and China’s policy re­sponse

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

In­ter­na­tion­al sur­rog­acy has ex­pan­ded along­side med­ic­al tech­no­logy and the dif­fer­ing rules that states apply to sur­rog­acy and legal par­ent­age, giving rise to cross-border dis­putes. This art­icle ap­proaches the sub­ject from a private in­ter­na­tion­al law per­spect­ive, con­siders China’s ex­ist­ing pro­hib­it­ive policy, and re­views the Hague Con­fer­ence on Private In­ter­na­tion­al Law’s work to­geth­er with Chinese legal and ju­di­cial prac­tice to assess how China may re­spond in policy and le­gis­la­tion and how it may po­s­i­tion itself to­wards in­ter­na­tion­al par­ent­age and sur­rog­acy ar­range­ments.