Elizabeth Bartholet: Publications

BOOKS
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
OP-EDS
LETTERS TO EDITOR

Books

NOBODY'S CHILDREN: ABUSE AND NEGLECT, FOSTER DRIFT, AND THE ADOPTION ALTERNATIVE (Beacon Press, 1999)
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FAMILY BONDS: ADOPTION, INFERTILITY, AND THE NEW WORLD OF CHILD PRODUCTION (Beacon Press, 1999), originally published as FAMILY BONDS: ADOPTION & THE POLITICS OF PARENTING (Houghton Mifflin 1993, paperback ed. 1994)
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Articles and Book Chapters

“International Adoption: The Human Rights Position,” 1 Global Policy 91 (2010), pre-peer-reviewed version available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1446811

"The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions," 51 Ariz. L. Rev. 871 (2009), also available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1373892

"International Adoption: The Human Rights Issues," forthcoming chapter in Michele Goodwin, ed., BABY MARKETS (Cambridge Univ. Press 2010)

"International Adoption: The Child's Story," 24 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 333 (2008)

"International Adoption: Thoughts on the Human Rights Issues," 13 Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 151 (2007)

"Commentary: Cultural Stereotypes Can and Do Die: It's Time to Move on With Transracial Adoption,"
J. Am. Acad. Psychiatry Law 34:315-20 (2006)

"International Adoption," chapter in "CHILDREN AND YOUTH IN ADOPTION, ORPHANAGES, AND FOSTER CARE", ed., Lori Askeland. ISBN # 0-313-33183-9. Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.(2005).

"Guiding Principles for Picking Parents," 27 Harv. Women’s L. J. 323 (2004); also published in a slightly revised form as chapter in GENETIC TIES AND THE FAMILY, Rothstein et al, editors, in 2005

"The Challenge of Children’s Rights Advocacy: Problems and Progress in the Area of Child Abuse and Neglect," 3 Whittier J. Child & Fam. Advoc.3 (2004)

Book Review of Rachel F. Moran's "Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance," 33 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 320 (2002)

Reply, "Whose Children? A Response to Professor Guggenheim," 113 Harv. L. Rev.1999 (2000)

"Taking Adoption Seriously: Radical Revolution or Modest Revisionism?," 28 Cap. U.L. Rev. 77 (1999)

"Reporting on Child Welfare and Adoption Policies," 53 Nieman Reports 74 (1999)

"Private Race Preferences in Family Formation," 107 Yale L.J. 2351 (1998)

"International Adoption: Propriety, Prospects, and Pragmatics," 13 J. Am. Acad. Matrim. Law 181 (1996)

"What's Wrong with Adoption Law?," 4 The International Journal of Children's Rights 263 (1996)

"Beyond Biology: The Politics of Adoption & Reproduction," 2 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 5 (1995)

"Race Separatism in the Family: More on the Transracial Adoption Debate," 2 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 99 (1995)

"International Adoption: Current Status and Future Prospects," in 3 The Future of Children No.1, 89-103 (Center for the Future of Children, Spring 1993)

"Where Do Black Children Belong? The Politics of Race Matching in Adoption," 139 U. PA. L. Rev. 1163 (1991)

"Application of Title VII to Jobs in High Places," 95 Harv. L. Rev. 945 (1982)

Op-eds

"Amid Disaster, Haitian Orphans Find Homes," Op-ed with Paulo Barrozo, NRP on-line, (1/21/10)

"Save the Children from Save the Children," Press Release on Madonna's Second Adoption (4/3/09)

"Race as a Barrier to Forming Families," Google News (6/16/08)

"Slamming the Door on Adoption," The Washington Post, p.B07 (11/4/07)

"Government's role in the cloning brouhaha," The Boston Globe, p.A23 (12/5/01)

"The Complex Family," The Boston Globe, p.A19 (6/8/00)

"Fertility for Sale," The New York Times, p.A27 (3/4/98)

"More than ever, state should cast wide net in search of foster parents," The Boston Globe, p.A11 (4/14/97)

"Adoption is about family, not race," Chicago Tribune, p.F.23 (11/5/93)

"Family Matters," Vogue, p.102 (11/93)

"Is Embryo Cloning Part of Reproductive Freedom?," Harvard Law RECORD (10/29/93)

"Blood Parents Vs. Real Parents," The New York Times, p. A19 (7/13/93)

"In Foster-Care Limbo," The Boston Globe, p.17 (3/17/92)

Letters to Editor

"Interracial Intimacies," New York Times Book Review, Letter Responding to Bernstein, p.4 (2/16/03)

"Rethink Adoption Policy," The Boston Globe, p.14 (1/17/94)

"Limits on Transracial Adoption Hurt Children," The New York Times, p.A24 (12/8/93)