Vol. 54, No. 3 (2021): The Year 2020 in Review
Our 2020 ?Year in Review? issue takes a look at family law in the time of COVID and at Hague Child Abduction Convention cases. It also offers new and improved charts comparing family law in the fifty states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

Editor?s Note
Lisa F. Grumet
Welcome to our 2020 ?Year in Review? issue. We have paired it with a second issue, Exploring Identity, which features Professor Marie-Am?lie George?s award-winning article on custody decisions for children exploring their gender identity.

Review of the Year 2020 in Family Law: COVID-19, Zoom, and Family Law in a Pandemic
Linda D. Elrod
COVID-19 shut down courts across the country starting in March 2020. Despite the health crisis and social and political turmoil, lawyers and judges rose to the challenge of navigating a justice system run remotely.

Proceedings Under the Hague Child Abduction Convention: 2020
By Robert G. Spector
Most U.S. international family law litigation involves the Hague Child Abduction Convention and the International Child Abduction Remedies Act. Federal and state courts have concurrent jurisdiction to decide a request to return a child.

Charts 2020: Family Law in the Fifty States, D.C., and Puerto Rico, Part 1
We introducing the first four of eight new family law charts: 1. Divorce and Alimony/Maintenance Statutes; 2. Child Custody Statutes; 3. ?Nonparent? Custody and Visitation Statutes; and 4. Child Representation in Child Welfare Proceedings Statutes.

Index to Volume 54
This Index provides a compendium of articles by author name and also by title for the quarterly issues of Volume 54.

Vol. 55, No. 1 (2021): Exploring Identity
Our annual ?Year in Review? issue is paired with this issue, Exploring Identity, featuring Professor Marie-Am?lie George?s pioneering article on custody decisions for children exploring their gender identity.

Introduction to Family Law Quarterly Volume 55, Number 1 (2021)
By Lisa F. Grumet
Exploring Identity is Marie-Am?lie George?s award-winning article on custody disputes over transgender or nonbinary children. Also in this issue: Daniel J. Malkin?s 2020 Schwab Essay, Germline Editing Using CRISPR: Why a Moratorium Is Not the Solution.

Featuring:
Exploring Identity
By Marie-Am?lie George
This article, for which the author won the 2021 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Gender & Law, provides the first comprehensive analysis of custody cases involving ?gender expansive children.?

Also: 2020 Schwab Family Law Essay
Germline Editing Using CRISPR: Why a Moratorium Is Not the Solution
By Daniel J. Malkin
Using CRISPR in conjunction with IVF to repair hereditable mutations causing serious congenital single-gene disease may pose fewer ethical challenges than IVF. Clinical applications of CRISPR germline editing should not be heavily restricted.