About Elizabeth Bartholet

Elizabeth Bartholet teaching


Elizabeth Bartholet is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, Emeritus, as of June 30, 2021, when she retired from teaching.   She also founded the Child Advocacy Program (CAP) in the fall of 2004.  See “What Betsy Built,” an article in Harvard Law Today commemorating her career, to hear from Harvard Law School alums on Professor Bartholet’s impact on their careers and lives.

 

Professor Bartholet taught civil rights and family law, specializing in child welfare, adoption, and reproductive technology.  Before joining the Harvard Faculty, she was engaged in civil rights and public interest work, first with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and later as founder and director of the Legal Action Center, a non-profit organization in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues.  Bartholet graduated from Radcliffe College in 1962, and from Harvard Law School in 1965.

Austin Hall, HLS

Elizabeth Bartholet
Morris Wasserstein Public Interest
Professor of Law, Emeritus

Harvard Law School
1575 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

Assistant: Caitlin DeVine