The Center for Adoption Policy,
The Justice Action Center at New York Law School, and
The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute present:

Science, Technology, and Adoption

Keynote Speaker
Debora Spar, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception

Panel I: The Brave New World of Family Law: Legal Aspects of Science, Technology, and Adoption

• Kathryn Bradley, Duke University, Moderator
• Joan Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), The Uniform Parentage Act of 2002: Alternative Routes to Becoming a Legal Parent
• Margaret Riley, University of Virginia, Regulation of Embryo Donation: Lessons from the British Experience
• Marci R. Etter, Esq., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Fifty-State Survey of the Law
• Nina Rumbold, Rumbold & Seidelman; and Melissa Brisman, Melissa B. Brisman, Esq., LLC, The Art of the Possible: Assisted Reproductive Law in New York State

Panel II: Ethics of Love: The New World of Embryo "Adoption" and Assisted Reproductive Technology

• Diane B. Kunz, Center for Adoption Policy, Moderator
• Ronald L. Stoddart, Nightlight Christian Adoption, Embryo Adoption: Who Decides?
• Vardit Ravitsky, Ph.D., Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Is Adoption in the "Best Interest" of Embryos? Some Reflections on the Moral Status of the In-Vitro Human Embryo
• Michael Colberg, JD, LCSW, Psychotherapist, What Adoption?
• Susan Crockin, JD, Practitioner, Legally Speaking: Embryo Donation, Not Adoption

Panel III: Virtually a Family: The Role of the Internet

• Ann N. Reese, Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy, Moderator
• Lowry Crook, Esq., Wilmer Hale, Fifty-State Survey of Adoption Law and the Internet
• Adam Pertman, Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, Old Lessons for a New World: Learning from Adoption

This CLE program was approved for both transitional and non-transitional attorneys for a maximum of 6 continuing legal education credits (5 credits in professional practice and 1 credit in ethics). The price of attendance with CLE was $240.

New York Law School offers financial assistance to attorneys who wish to attend CLE courses but who find it difficult to attend due to cost considerations. For more information, please visit the law school's continuing legal education tuition assistance page.

REGISTRATION

Registration was open to the public. The cost of attendance (without CLE credit) was $40. Attendance with 5 CLE credits in professional practice and 1 CLE credit in ethics is $240. Attendance and CLE fees were waived for all New York Law School staff, students, and faculty.