Elizabeth Bartholet

Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law

Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program

Biographical Statement

Elizabeth Bartholet is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Child Advocacy Program (CAP) at Harvard Law School, where she teaches 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.

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1977
• Professor of Law, 1983
• Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, 1996
• Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, 2004

Education

• Radcliffe College B.A. 1962, English Literature
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1965

Research Interests

• Adoption
• Child Welfare
• Reproductive Technology

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Adoption
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Child Welfare
• Civil Rights
• Employment Discrimination
• Family Law
• Foster Care
• Medicine and the Law
• New Reproductive Technologies
• Reproductive Technologies/Infertility Treatment

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Adoption
• Child Welfare
• Employment Discrimination
• Reproductive Technology

Representative Publications

• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Ratification by the United States of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Pros and Cons from a Child's Rights Perspective," 663 Annals Am. Acad. Pol & Soc. Sci. 80 (2011).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: The Human Rights Position," 1 Global Policy 91 (2010).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions," 51 Arizona Law Review 871 (2009).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: The Child's Story," 24 Georgia State University Law Review 333 (2008).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: Thoughts on the Human Rights Issues," 13 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 151 (2007).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Commentary: Cultural Stereotypes Can and Do Die: It's Time to Move on With Transracial Adoption," 34 J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 315 (2006).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Guiding Principles for Picking Parents," 27 Harvard Women's Law Journal 323 (2004).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Whose Children? A Response to Professor Guggenheim," 113 Harvard Law Review 1999 (2000).
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• Bartholet, Elizabeth. NOBODY'S CHILDREN: ABUSE, NEGLECT, FOSTER DRIFT, AND THE ADOPTION ALTERNATIVE (Beacon Press 1999).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Bartholet, Elizabeth. FAMILY BONDS: ADOPTION, INFERTILITY, AND THE NEW WORLD OF CHILD PROTECTION (Beacon Press 1999).
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  (originally published as FAMILY BONDS: ADOPTION & THE POLITICS OF PARENTING(Houghton Mifflin 1993, paperback ed. 1994.))
  
• Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Where do Black Children Belong? The Politics of Race Matching in Adoption," 139 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1163 (1991).
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