March 1, 2013: The Tenth Annual Conference on Adoption Policy: Ten Years Together: A Retrospective and Prospective Look at International and Domestic Adoption, co-hosted by the Center for Adoption Policy.
January 11th, 2013: Diane Abbey Law Center Family Law Internship Forum, an opportunity for law students interested in family law to meet and network with agencies and not-for-profit organizations seeking summer interns
November 16th, 2012; Freedom of Choice at the End of Life Patients' Rights in a Shifting Legal and Political Landscape Symposium. This conference addressed a broad range of issues including impediments to honoring those rights, advance planning tools for persons to ensure compliance with their choices and how to enforce them, legislative and decisional developments, surrogate decision-making for patients whose wishes are not known, pain management and palliative care, hospice, aid in dying, ethical dilemmas in decision-making, medical ineffectiveness of treatment (“futility”), concerns of persons with disabilities, the effect of religion on law and policy, and how the media treats these issues.