Friday, March 1, 2013

 The Tenth Annual Adoption Law and Policy Conference Sponsored by the Center for Adoption Policy and New York Law School

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GENERAL INFORMATION

Address:
New York Law School
185 W Broadway
New York, NY 10013

Registration Fee: $50 (or see registration form for financial assistance)

CLE Information: 6.0 transitional and non-transitional New York State CLE Credits will be available to all attendees***

For information on hotels, local parking and directions to the Law School, click here. 

For more any additional information please feel free to contact the Abbey Center 

Diane Abbey Center for Children & Families

AbbeyLawCenter@NYLS.edu | 212 431 2351

* New York Law School is certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an Accredited Provider of continuing legal education in the State of New York. The number of hours and details for this CLE program will be announced in the spring.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

 
8:15-8:45 AM
Registration and Morning Coffee

8:45-9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks by Diane B. Kunz, Co-Executive Director of the Center for Adoption Policy and Geneviève Wachtell, Acting Director of the Diane Abbey Law Center for Children & Families

9:00-9:30 AM
Convening Speaker: Senator Mary Landrieu (D. La), Founding Co- Chair and Board President of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption and Co-Chair of the Congressional Foster Care Caucus

9:30-11:00 AM
Panel I: Domestic Adoption: A Whole Different Landscape
Chair and Speaker: Professor Joan Heifetz Hollinger, John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer, University of California Berkeley Law School
Professor Susan Appleton, Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law and Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow for 2012-2013, Washington University Law School
Brian Zimmerman, J.D., Assigned Counsel/Attorney for Children Panel in Kings County Family Court
Dawn J. Post, J.D., Brooklyn Borough Director, Children’s Law Center New York

11:00-11:15 AM
Break

11:15 AM -1:00 PM
Panel II: Developments in International Adoption – the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption and the Years Ahead
Chair and Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law &
Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard University School of Law
Department of State, Office of Children’s Issues Designee
Department of Homeland Security, USCIS Designee
Professor Barbara Stark, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, Hofstra School of Law

1:15- -1:30 PM
Break and Lunch Distribution

1:30 – 2: 30 PM
Keynote Address on Adoption and its Critics: Dr. Debora Spar, President of Barnard College , Columbia University

2:30-2:45 PM
Break

2:45-4:30
Panel III: Considerations of Child Development within Models of Permanency
Chair and Speaker: Whitney A. Reitz, Senior Policy Advisor on International Child Welfare to Senator Mary Landrieu
Dr. Jane Aronson, Founder of Worldwide Orphans Foundation
Dr. Neal Boothby, Allan Rosenfield Professor of Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health
Dr. Charles Nelson, Professor of Pediatrics, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

4:30 - 5:30 PM
Questions and Discussion with the Audience

5:30 PM
Reception