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The Rights of the Child in a Globalized World

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The Rights of the Child in a Globalized World

Conference at Duke Law School, Friday, November 17, 2017
Sponsored by Duke Law School and Center for Adoption Policy

 

 
Friday, November 17, 2017
8:00-8:30 a.m.  Continental breakfast
8:30-8:45 a.m.  Introductory Remarks
 

Professor Kathryn W. Bradley, Duke Law School
 

Professor Diane B. Kunz and Ms. Ann N. Reese, Co-Executive Directors, Center for Adoption Policy
 

Senior Associate Dean Guy Charles, Duke Law School
8:45-9:30 a.m.  Keynote Address
 

Speaker:     Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Former U.S. Senator (D.
                     Louisiana)
9:30-10:45 a.m. Panel I:  Human Rights Conventions and Family Creation
  This panel will explore the evolution of the concept of the right to a family from the Declaration of Human Rights, through the Convention on the Rights of Children, to the European Human Rights Convention, and will consider the nexus between adoption and a child's right to a family.
   Moderator:   Professor, Katharine T. Bartlett, Duke Law School 
                      Professor
 

 Panelists:    Professor Paulo Barrozo, Boston College                                                   Law School
 

Professor Sara Dillon, Suffolk University College of Law
 

Shannon Minter, Esq., Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
 

Professor Kathryn Whetten, Sanford School of Public Policy
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 - 12:15 p.m. Panel II:  U.S. and International Law and Adoption
  This panel will discuss the interrelationship between the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, the Intercountry Adoption Act, and proposed changes to the statutory and regulatory structure.
  Moderator:   Professor Kathryn W. Bradley, Duke Law School
 

Panelists:    Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, Harvard Law School
 

Professor Joan Hollinger, Berkeley Law School
 

Emily Dudak Taylor, Esq., Vice President, Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch with Speaker
 

Dr. Kate Murray, Co-Director of Post-Adoption Support Services, Duke Center for Child and Family Health
1:15-2:30 p.m. Panel III:  The Government Perspective
  This panel will consist of U.S. government representatives who will discuss the DOS/USCIS intercountry adoption regime as it currently exists.
  Moderator and Speaker: Ambassador Michele Thoren Bond, Former
                        Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, U.S.
                       Department of State
  Panelists:      Trish Maskew, Esq., Chief of the Adoption Division, U.S.
                       Department of State
 

Carrie A. Rankin, Esq., Branch Chief for Children's Issues and Parole Policy, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
                        Amy Bourne, Section Chief of the Adoption Division,                                 National Benefits Center
2:30-2:45 p.m. Break
2:45-4:00 p.m. Panel IV:  Assisted Reproductive Technology At Home and Abroad
  This panel will examine the growth and restriction of international ART as well as the current move toward a Hague Convention on ART, focusing on the child’s interests rather than those of the intended parents or the surrogate.  Among other questions, it will explore whether a child should be the subject of a contract and whether intended parents should be required to satisfy requirements of adoption such as a homestudy and background checks.
  Moderator:   Professor Doriane L. Coleman, Duke Law School
 

Panelists:     Melissa Brisman, Esq.
 

Professor Naomi Cahn, George Washington University Law School
 

Professor Yasmin Ergas, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs
4:00-5:15 p.m. Panel V:  Stakeholder Citizenship and Children
  The panel will discuss the growing movement toward a human right to citizenship and how it would affect children, including the concept of birth citizenship and “natural born.”  It will also examine the relationship between the legal rights of adopted children, the legal status of children of surrogates, and the current issues surrounding refugees and undocumented immigrants.
  Moderator:   Professor Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Duke Law School
  Panelists:    Dan H. Berger, Esq.
 

Professor DeLeith Duke Gossett, Texas Tech School of Law
 

Professor Marcia Yablon-Zug, University of South Carolina School of Law

 

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October 26, 2017.  Save the Adoption Tax Credit!  The Federal Adoption Tax Credit has helped thousands of families to adopt children who would otherwise be unparented.  These days most adoptions are of American born children.  With Congress looking to end many tax credits, a groups of U.S.  organizations has banded together to form “ Save the Adoption Tax Credit.”   To find out how you can help please go to https://adoptiontaxcredit.org/
October 25, 2017.  Gender Shift in International Adoption.  Readers of this column are well aware of the first, the declining number of international adoptions and second, the fact that international adoptees today either have special needs, are part of a sibling group or are older. But another shift is that for the first time in the modern period of international adoption, the majority of adoptees are boys.  In 2016, 52 percent of international adoptees were boys and of the Chinese adoptees ( who predominate in international adoption) 51 percent were boys.   Historically, while birth parents preferred boys to girls, adoptive parents preferred girls to boys.  Moreover, the Chinese program was virtually all girls until 2007.  For More Information see http://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2017/september/international-adoptions-drop-to-new-low-as-evangelical-fund.html