Adoption Policy Conference at New York Law School to Focus on Scientific and Technological Development
Contact: Edith Sachs, Office of Public Affairs, 212.431.2187, esachs@nyls.edu
MEDIA ADVISORY
DATE: Thursday, May 18, 2006
EVENT: The Third Annual Adoption Policy Conference: Science, Technology, and Adoption
TIME: 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
DESCRIPTION: The conference will feature academics, lawyers, and advocates who will address groundbreaking issues in adoption policy including the legal and political ramifications of continued technological development. Topics will include reproductive law, the ethics of reproductive technologies, and embryo donation.
PRESENTED BY: New York Law School’s Justice Action Center, the Center for Adoption Policy, and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Debora Spar, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School
“The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception” - Adam Pertman, Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption
Institute
“Old Lessons for a New World: Learning from Adoption”
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
- The Brave New World of Family Law: Legal Aspects of Science, Technology, and Adoption
- Ethics of Love: The New World of Embryo "Adoption" and Assisted Reproductive Technology
- Virtually a Family: The Role of the Internet
LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center, New York Law School, 47 Worth Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 (between Church Street and West Broadway)
DIRECTIONS: Via Subway: 1 to Franklin Street; 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street
CONTACT: Edith Sachs, Office of Public Affairs, New York Law School, 212.431.2187 or esachs@nyls.edu
ABOUT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL:
Founded in 1891, New York Law School is an independent law school located in lower Manhattan near the city’s centers of law, government, and finance. New York Law School’s renowned faculty of prolific scholars has built the school’s strength in such areas as constitutional law, civil and human rights, labor and employment law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and a number of interdisciplinary fields. The school is noted for its six academic centers: the Justice Action Center, Center for New York City Law, Center for Professional Values and Practice, Center on Business Law & Policy, Institute for Information Law and Policy, and the Center for International Law. New York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and enrolls some 1500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. programs and its Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation program.
