Elizabeth Bartholet

Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law

Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program

Office:	Hauser 422
Assistant:	Eleanor Topping 617/496-0551
Phone:	(617) 495-3128
Fax:	(617) 496-4947
Email:	ebarthol@law.harvard.edu
Web Page:	Individual Website with Additional Information

Faculty Directory listing

Bibliography

Books

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).
Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
(originally published as FAMILY BONDS: ADOPTION & THE POLITICS OF PARENTING(Houghton Mifflin 1993, paperback ed. 1994.))

Shorter Works in Collection

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Interview with Elizabeth Bartholet" in Breaking Barriers: The Unfinished Story of Women Lawyers and Judges in Massachusetts 88 (Barbara F. Berenson, Esq., Hon. Margot Botsford & Hon. Patti B. Saris eds., MCLE, 2012).
Full text: WWW

Bartholet, Elizabeth & David Smolin. "The Debate" in Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices and Outcomes (Ashgate Publishing, 2012).
Full text: WWW
(To see entire contents of book, click here.)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: The Human Rights Issues" in BABY MARKETS (Michele Goodwin ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Racial Disproportionality Movement in Child Welfare: False Facts and Dangerous Directions" in Litigation and Administrative Practice Course Handbook Series: Criminal Law and Urban Problems 273 (Practising Law Institute, 2009).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: The Human Rights Position" in Litigation and Administrative Practice Course Handbook Series: Criminal Law and Urban Problems 241 (Practising Law Institute, 2009).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: Thoughts on the Human Rights Issues (excerpted from article of same name, 13 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 151 (2007)" in CHILD INTERESTS: Socio Legal Perspectives, ed. K. Padmaja 77 (Icfai Univ. Press, India, 2007).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption" in Children and Youth in Adoption, Orphanages, and Foster Care, ed., Lori Askeland p. 63 (Greenwood Press, 2006).
(Reproduced with the Permission of Greenwood Press., Westport, CT - www.greenwood.com)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Guiding Principles for Picking Parents" in Genetic Ties and the Future of the Family: The Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children 132 (Mark A. Rothstein, Thomas H. Murray, Gregory E. Kaebnick & Mary Anderlik Majumder eds., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Parenting Options for the Infertile" in WOMEN AND THE LAW 417 (Judith G. Greenberg, Martha L. Minow & Dorothy E. Roberts eds., Thompson West, 2004).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: An Overview" in Adoption Law and Practice 10:1 (Joan H. Hollinger, Editor in Chief eds., Matthew Bender, 1997).
Full text: WWW
(Updated by Hollinger, 2005)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Adoption Rights and Reproductive Wrongs" in POWER 177 (Gita Sen & Rachel C. Snow eds., Harvard University Press, 1994).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "In Vitro Fertilization: The Construction of Infertility and of Parenting" in REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY I 253 (Helen Bequaert Holmes & Joan Helmich eds., New York University Press, 1994).
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Articles in a Periodical

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Creating a Child-Friendly Child Welfare System: Effective Early Intervention to Prevent Maltreatment and Protect Victimized Children," 60 Buffalo Law Review 1323 (2012).
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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).
Full text: WWW || SSRN
(SSRN is the pre-peer-reviewed version)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Permanency Is Not Enough: Children Need the Nurturing Parents Found in International Adoption," 55 New York University Law Review 781 (2010).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: A Way Forward," 55 N.Y.U. Law Review 687 (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. "Under-Intervention Versus Over-Intervention"," 3 Cardozo Public Law Policy & Ethics Journal 355 (2005).
(Article in Symposium Advocating for Change: The Status and Future of America's Child Welfare System 30 Years After CAPTA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Challenge of Children's Rights Advocacy: Problems and Progress in the Area of Child Abuse and Neglect," 3 Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy 215 (2004).
Full text: WWW || SSRN (Harvard Users) || SSRN || WESTLAW

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Guiding Principles for Picking Parents," 27 Harvard Women's Law Journal 323 (2004).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Reviewing Rachel Moran's Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance," 33 Journal of Interdisciplinary History 320 (2002).
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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. "Taking Adoption Seriously: Radical Revolution or Modest Revisionism?" 28 Cap. University Law Review 77 (1999).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Reporting on Child Welfare and Adoption Policies," 53 Nieman Reports 74 (1999).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Private Race Preferences in Family Formation," 107 Yale Law Journal 2351 (1998).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth & Nerys Patterson. "Debate: Best Interests of the Child?" 11 Prospect 18-20 (1996).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: Propriety, Prospects and Pragmatics," 13 J. Am. Acad. Matrim. Law 181 (1996).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "What's Wrong with Adoption Law?" 4 The International Journal of Children's Rights 263 (1996).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Beyond Biology: The Politics of Adoption & Reproduction," 2 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 5 (1995).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Race Separatism in the Family: More on the Transracial Adoption Debate," 2 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 99 (1995).
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(reprinted as �Debate 15: Should Transracial Adoptions Be Allowed?,� Controversial Issues in Social Policy, Howard J. Karger et al, 2nd Ed., 220-27 (Pearson Education 2003))

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "International Adoption: Current Status and Future Prospects," 1 The Future of Children (Center for the Future of Children) 89 (1993).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Articles based in part on Family Bonds: 'Blood Knots'," American Prospect, Fall 1993, at 48-57.
("Family Matters," Vogue 102-06 (Nov. 1993); "What's Wrong with Adoption Law," Trial 18-23 (Fall 1993))

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Are Those Your Kids?" 33 Harvard International Law Journal 649 (1992) (book review).

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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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Radical Nature of the Reagan Administration's Assault on Affirmative Action," 3 Harvard BlackLetter Journal 37 (1986).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Proof of Discriminatory Intent Under Title VII: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE BOARD OF GOVERNORS v. AIKENS," 70 California Law Review 1201 (1982).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Application of Title VII to Jobs in High Places," 95 Harvard Law Review 945 (1982).
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Articles in a Newspaper

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "How to Prevent Adoption Disasters," New York Times, April 15, 2010, Room for Debate.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Haiti's Children and the Adoption Question," New York Times, Feb. 1, 2010, Room for Debate.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Celebrity Adoptions and the Real World - Focus on the Child�s Human Rights," New York Times, May 10, 2009, Room for Debate.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth et al. "Save the Children from Save the Children," Press Release, April 3, 2009.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Race as a Barrier to Forming Families," Google News, June 16, 2008.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Slamming the Door on Adoption," The Washington Post, 11/4/07, B, at 7.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Letter Responding to Bernstein," New York Times, February 16, 2003, at 4.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Government's Role in the Cloning Brouhaha," The Boston Globe, December 5, 2001, at A23.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Complex Family," The Boston Globe, June 8, 2000, at A19.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Fertility for Sale," New York Times, March 4, 1998, Op-Ed, at A 27.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Fitness to Foster," Harvard Law Bulletin, Summer.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Fitness to Foster," Harvard Law Record, April 25, 1997.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "More than ever, state should cast wide net in search of foster parents," Boston Globe, April 14, 1997, at A 11.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Rethink Adoption Policy," Boston Globe, January 17, 1994, Letters to the Editor, at 14.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Limits on Transracial Adoption Hurt Children," New York Times, December 8, 1993, at A 24.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Adoption is about family, not race," Chicago Tribune, November 5, 1993, at 23.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Race Separatism Bill is a Big Mistake," San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 1993, at A 21.

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Is Embryo Cloning Part of Reproductive Freedom?" Harvard Law Record, October 29, 1993, at 9.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Blood Parents vs. Real Parents," New York Times, July 13, 1993, Op-Ed, at A. 19.
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. "In foster-care limbo," Boston Globe, March 17, 1992, at 17.
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Reports or Studies

Bartholet, Elizabeth, Fred Wulczyn, Richard P. Barth & Cindy Lederman. "Race and Child Welfare", Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago (2011).
Full text: WWW

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Race & Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re-Assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options" (2011).
Full text: SSRN

Bartholet, Elizabeth, Dana E. Johnson & Elizabeth Styffe. "Separate Statement, The Way Forward Project Report" (2011).
Full text: WWW
(November 2011)

Presentations

Bartholet, Elizabeth. IA & Hague Developments, at The Tenth Annual Adoption Law and Policy Conference, New York Law School, Panel II Developments in IA and the Hague (March 1, 2013).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Pepperdine University, Herbert & Elinor Nootbar Institute On Law, Religion & Ethics, Plenary I, "Orphan Rescue Or Child Trafficking? The International Adoption Cliff: Do Child Human Rights Matter?" (Feb. 8, 2013).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Pepperdine University, Herbert & Elinor Nootbar Institute On Law, Religion & Ethics, Breakout Session II, "The Hague Convention On Intercountry Adoption: Past, Present & Future: The Hague Convention: Pros & Cons To Date; Potential For The Future" (Feb. 8, 2013).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. University Of Southern California, Journalism For Social Change, "Child Maltreatment: Creating A Child-Friendly Child Welfare System" (Feb. 7, 2013).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Whittier Law School Center For Children's Rights , FitzRandolph Memorial Lecture, "Creating A Child-Friendly Child Welfare System" (Feb. 5, 2013).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Academic Center of Law & Business, Israel, The 8th International Human Rights Researchers Workshop, Intergenerational Justice, "Intergenerational Justice For Children: Restructuring Adoption, Reproduction & Child Welfare Policy" (Jan. 8, 2013).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Brieland Lecture, "Creating a Child-Friendly Child Welfare System" (October 29, 2012).
Full text: WWW

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Harvard Law School Faculty Family Law Group: IA (April 11, 2012).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. International Perspectives on Children in Exceptionally Difficult Circumstances: Orphanages & Related IA Issues, Laurie Miller Seminar, Tufts University (October 7, 2011).
Full text: WWW

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Evolutions in Anti-Discrimination Law in Europe and N. America Conference (March 6-7, 2011).
(Comments on Sandra Fredman paper "Proactive Equality Duties in the UK")

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Constitution and Policy Issues: ReproTech, Reprogenetics," Jasonoff Greenwall Workshop, The Constitutional Foundations of Bioethics: A Cross-National Comparison, Harvard Law School (Nov. 22, 2010).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. International Childhood, Rights & Globalization course taught by Jacqueline Bhabha, Kennedy School of Government (Nov. 18, 2010).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. Race and The Family Conference, University of South Carolina School of Law, Keynote, "Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare" (October 14-15, 2010).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. 10th Annual Beyond Borders International Adoption Conference, San Antonio, Texas, Keynote, "International Adoption: Policies and Politics, Human Rights and Wrongs" (September 25-26, 2010).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bartholet, Keynote, National Council for Adoption's National Adoption Conference and Intercountry Adoption Summit, From TRA to Racial Disproportionality: More Things Change, More They Stay the Same (July 7-9, 2010).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. (IA) Wide Horizons for Children Board of Directors (April 28, 2010).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Harvard Law School, Child and Youth Advocates, Haiti and International Adoption (Apr. 6, 2010).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. The Center for Adoption Policy, HLS Cap, and others, 7th Annual Adoption Policy Conference, March 5, 2010, One Perspective on Permanency: Permanency is Not Enough -- Children Deserve Parents (March 5, 2010).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. University of Texas at Austin School of Law, A Human Rights Perspective on Unparented Children and International Adoption (Feb. 8, 2010).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. HLS Association of NYC Annual Luncheon Meeting, "Child Advocacy Program, International Adoption, Racial Disproportionality" (Jan. 27, 2010).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. PLI Adoption Law Institute, NYC, "Serving Vulnerable Children at Home & Abroad: A Medical and Legal Perspective" (Dec. 18, 2009).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. Racial Disproportionality Presentation, HLS Faculty Workshop (July 9, 2009).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Harvard 2009 Bioethics Conference, Elizabeth Bartholet, Panel Presentation, "Fertilization Technology: Should Parents Be Allowed to Reproduce As They Please?" (March 14, 2009).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. New York Law School Justice Action Center, The Center for Adoption Policy, and The Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School, 6th Annual Adoption Policy Conference, "International Adoption, The United States, and the Reality of the Hague System," Elizabeth Bartholet, Welcome and Panel Presentation, Ensuring the Future: A New Way Forward for International Adoption (March 6, 2009).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. HLS Celebration 55, Models of Motherhood Panel (September 18, 2008).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support: Written Testimony for Hearing on Racial Disproportionality in Foster Care (July 31, 2008).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. Courting Big Business: The Supreme Court's Recent Decisions on Corporate Misconduct and Laws Regulating Corporations, Testimony before U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (July 23, 2008).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, "Response to Donaldson Institute Call for Amendment of the Multiethnic Placment Act (MEPA) to Reinstate use of Race as a Placement Factor" (June 10, 2008).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. Children Without a State: A Human Rights Challenge, Harvard Rights of the Child Conference (May 5, 2008).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Waiting in America: Foster Care to Adoption, Keynote Speaker, New York Law School Justice Action Center and New York City CAP 5th Annual Adoption Conference (April 25, 2008).
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Bartholet, Elizabeth. Where Do We Go From Here: Ideas for the Future, Panel Moderator, Harvard Law School - Women's Law Association Conference (Feb. 22, 2008).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. What's Best for Children: Use of Neuroscience to Break the Cycle of Child Maltreatment. Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University (February 12, 2008).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. The Child Advocacy Program and the Crises Surrounding International Adoption, Joint Council, Harvard Law School (Jan. 16, 2008).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Fundraiser for Peru Earthquake Victims, Comments (Nov. 10, 2007).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. The Multiethnic Placement Act: Minority Children in State Foster Care and Adoption. Testimony before U.S. Commission on Civil RIghts (Sept. 21, 2007).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. The Future of ICA in a Hague-Convention World (May 18, 2007).
(Center for Adoption Policy, NYC)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Current Issues and Transracial Adoption at Practising Law Institute - New York, NY (Dec. 16, 2005).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. Translating BIC Into Action at IAC Focus on Adoption 2nd World Conference - Worcester, MA (Nov. 11, 2005).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "How to Decide Which Country is Right for You?" (November 5, 2005).
(RESOLVE, Adopting Internationally Conference - Marlborough, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. International Adoption - The Pros and Cons (November 3, 2005).
(Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, New Haven, CT)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Transnational Adoption: A Human Rights Obligation or a Human Rights Violation?" (November 1, 2005).
(Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies - debate with Rosa Ortiz, Harvard University)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Reforming Parentage Law" (September 30-October 1, 2005).
(The College of William & Mary Institute of Bill of Rights Law Scholarly Conference)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Pro's and Cons of International Adoption: Should UNICEF Be Trying to Close it Down?" (June 27, 2005).
(Harvard Law School Summer Faculty Workshop)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Women, Genetics, and Science" (April 19, 2005).
(Harvard Law School Alliance of Independent Feminists, Cambridge, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Child Advocacy Program, Public Interest and Clinical" (April 14, 2005).
(Harvard Law School Reunion, Cambridge, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Weighing the Costs and Benefits of International Adoption Against the Alternative" and "Transracial Adoption" (April 1, 2005).
(Wells Conference on Adoption Law, "Illuminating the Child's Perspective" at the Capital University Law School, Columbus OH)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Defining the Best Interests of the Child" - Keynote (January 20, 2005).
(FOCUS Conference on International Adoption, "In the Best Interests of the Child" at Guatemala City, Guatemala)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Politics and Policies in International Adoption" (January 12, 2005).
(at Brookhaven, Waltham, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Emerging Issues: Same Sex, TRA, Singles" (November 17, 2004).
(Practising Law Institute, Adoption Law Institute, New York, NY)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Defining the Best Interests of the Child" and "Policymaking and Law" (October 20-22, 2004).
(Inter-Country Adoption Congress - "New Tools for Understanding and Enforcing the Human Rights of Orphaned and Abandoned Children," Atlanta, GA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Non-Traditional Parent Options" (October 8-9, 2004).
(Open Door Society Conference - "Making Space...", Natick, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Same Sex Marriage and Reproductive Technology" (June 16-19, 2004).
(Harvard LawSchool Worldwide Congress, London, England)

Bartholet, Elizabeth, James Cavallaro & Christine Desan. Open Letter to the U.S. Congress Concerning Human Rights Abuses at Abu Ghraib (June 16, 2004).

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Politics of International Adoption: Halting Progress and Perennial Problems" (May 21, 2004).
(Conference: "Intercountry Adoption: The European Union and Trans-National Law" at New York Law School, New York, NY)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Initial Intervention" AND "Long Term Solutions" (April 19, 2004).
(Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal and the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption Conference - "Advocating for Change: The Status and Future of America's Child Welfare System 30 Years After CAPTA", New York, NY)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Interracial Adoption" Panel Discussion (April 15, 2004).
(Harvard Law School Multi-Racial Law Students Association, Cambridge, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "From Reinforcing to Revolutionizing the Traditional Concept of Family" (March 27, 2004).
(Organization of American Historians 2004 Meeting: "American Revolutions: How Revolutionary Has the History of Child Adoption Been?", Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The Challenge of Children's Rights Advocacy: Problems and Progress in the Area of Child Abuse and Neglect" (January 27, 2004).
Full text: WWW
(Whittier Law School for Children's Rights John A. FitzRandolph Lecture - Costa Mesa, CA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Early Home Visitation" (October 30, 2003).
(Healthy Families Initiatives - "The Spirit of Healthy Families," Houston, TX)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Race, Genes, and Class: Shaping Child Welfare Policy in the 21st Century" (April 29-30, 2003).
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Developments in Law and Politics of Adoption" and "Introduction to Adoption" (April 12, 2003).
(ODS Adoption Community of New England, Inc., 30th Annual NE Adoption Conference - Bellingham, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Guiding Principles for Picking Parents" (March 28, 2003).
(Conference on Genetic Bonds and Family Law: The Challenge of DNA Parentage Testing - Hastings Center & Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law, New Orleans, LA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Across Borders: Intersectionality of Transracial and Transnational Adoption: Opposing Perspectives on the Best Interests of the Child" (March 1, 2003).
(University of North Carolina School of Law Conference on Adoption in the 21st Century: Redefining the Nuclear Family)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Child Welfare Issues" (August 31, 2002).
(Shanley Adoption Book Panel, American Political Science Association - Washington, D.C)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Giving Children a Voice" (July 9, 2002).
(Listening to the Children - 11th Annual Statewide Adoption Conference: July 10-12, 2002, Lancaster, PA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "25 Years at Harvard" (May 23, 2002).
(25th Year Celebration, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Biological Bias: The Evidence" (May 16, 2002).
(The Hastings Center "Genetic Ties and the Future of the Family Meeting III: Toward Policy," Garrison, NY)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Employment Law Update" (April 11, 2002).
(23rd Annual Labor and Employment Law Srping Conference - Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Adoption Issues" (March 20, 2002).
(Shady Hill School - Cambridge, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Martin Luther King Day Talk" (January 17, 2002).
(Beaver Country Day School , Chestnut Hill, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Legislative Proposals re: Cloning and Regulatory Commission" (December 12, 2001).
(MA Senate Committee on Science & Technology hearing, Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "ASFA at a Crossroads: Adoption vs. Promoting Safe and Stable Families" (August 2, 2001).
(American Humane Association: Implementing the Adoption and Safe Families, Baltimore, MD)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Finding Workable Solutions in the Area of Child Abuse & Neglect: Thoughts on Parental Substance Abuse and Procreative Freedom" (July 19, 2001).
(HLS Summer Workshop, Cambridge, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Getting Started on Adoption" (April 28, 2001).
(ODS of Massachusetts "Celebrating the Evolution of Foster and Adoptive Family Life," Milford, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Foster Care: The Border of Family Identity - Maintaining, (Re) creating, Destroying" (March 31, 2001).
(A Conference on Women and the Law - "Transgressing Borders: Women's Bodies, Identities and Families" In Memory of Mary Joe Frug, New England School of Law, Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Contrasting Visions of the Discrimination Problem and the Nature of Appropriate Solutions: Trends in Federal Courts' Interpretation of Title VII and the ADEA" (March 2, 2001).
(JAMS:Employment Discrimination Law Changes from 60's to 90's, Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "A Revolution in Child Welfare Thinking?????" (October 26, 2000).
(Massachusetts School Counselors Association Conference - Worcester, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Current Legal Issues in Adoption (IA, AFSA, Wrongful Adoption" (May 12, 2000).
(Pediatricians Group (Albers): Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "All in the Biological Family" (April 11, 2000).
(National Council for Adoption Meeting, 2000 - Washington, D.C)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Debunking the Adoption Stigma" (April 8, 2000).
(ODS of Massachusetts - Milford, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Cultural Competence Education and Screening for Cross-Cultural, Cross-Racial Adoptive Parents? Obligatory? Discretionary?" (March 9, 2000).
(Collquium on the Ethics of Adoption: Multi-Cultural Families in Adoption at the University of Massachusetts - Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Cultural Competence Education and Screening for Cross-Cultural, Cross Racial Adoptive Parents? Obligatory? Discretionary?" (March 9, 2000).
(Colloquium on the Ethics of Adoption - Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "The National Challenge: Where Are We Now? Where Do We Go From Here?" (February 24, 2000).
(Kids at Risk - Working Together to Protect America's Youth Conference - Houston, TX)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Liman Institute Awards Benefit" (February 8, 2000).
(Legal Action Center, New York, NY)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Child Welfare Issues" (February, 2000).
(Kids at Risk: Working Together to Protect America's Youth Conference)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Nobody's Children Themes" (January 13, 2000).
(Harvard Children's Initiative at HLS, Cambridge, MA)

Bartholet, Elizabeth. "Politics of Family Violence" (January 13, 2000).
(Thursday Morning Talks - Cambridge, MA)

Internet Publications

Bartholet, Elizabeth & Paulo Barrozo. Amid Disaster, Haitian Orphans Find Homes, NPR Online, January 21, 2010 (2010).
Full text: WWW

Miscellaneous Publications

Letter from Elizabeth Bartholet, James Cavallaro, & Christine Desan, Faculty, Harvard Law School, to the U.S. Congress on Recent Human Rights Issues in Iraq (June 16, 2004).
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