In 1973, in Birmingham the International Society of Family Law was born.

Professor Falk was the one in whose brain this brilliant idea took form.

The objective of the Society was the study and discussion of Family Law

Furtherance of international research, dissemination of ideas and much more.

The first ISFL World Conference was held in West Berlin, in 1975.

Its theme, The Child and the Law, is still so very much alive.

The second World Conference in Montreal, Canada, in 1977

Was on Violence in the Family, an ever-present painful cry to heaven.

Family Living in a Changing Society was theme of World Conference three

In 1979, in Sweden, new knowledge gained, we didn’t leave ignorantly.

Come 1982 at Harvard Law School, the fourth World Conference was held.

The first in the USA, but the theme, I do not know, and no one could tell.

Belgium in 1985 was the fifth, on The Family, the State and Individual Security.

Still so relevant and concerning to all, whether you live in the country or the city.

The sixth World Conference in 1988, in Tokyo, Japan, was the first in Asia.

Issues of the Ageing in Modern Society was the theme chosen for us to hear.

The seventh World Conference in 1991, in Croatia, had longest title you’d see:

Parenthood, The Legal Significance of Motherhood and Fatherhood in a Changing Society.

The eighth World Conference, in 1994, in Cardiff, Wales, was my first.

Families Across Frontiers, an intellectual fare, birthed in me an insatiable thirst.

For the ninth World Conference in 1997, I went to Durban, South Africa, to dine.

One of the conference presentations later published in the Survey was mine.

Changing Family Forms: World Themes and African Issues was the topic.

The Relationship Between Social Change and the Law – The Concept of ‘Family’ and the Child Born Out of Wedlock, was my pick.

The tenth World Conference was held in 2000, in Queensland, Australia.

The theme, Family Law Processes, Practices and Pressures was good to hear.

The eleventh World Conference was held in Copenhagen and Oslo

On the theme, Family Law and Human Rights, one that we all know.