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Artificial Reproductive Techniques And The Protection Of The Kinship System, Scott Fitzgibbon

Scott T. FitzGibbon

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Co-Organizer: Symposium On The Jurisprudence Of Family Relations: Privacy, Autonomy, And Should States Regulate Family Relations?, Scott Fitzgibbon

Scott T. FitzGibbon

Professor FitzGibbon served as a co-organizer for the Symposium on the Jurisprudence of Family Relations: Privacy, Autonomy, and Should States Regulate Family Relations? at the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University.

Harmonious Discourse And The Good Of Family Law, Scott Fitzgibbon

Scott T. FitzGibbon

On June 6, 2013, Professor FitzGibbon presented at the North American Regional Conference for the International Society of Family Law.

Moderator, Youth In Prison: The Reality Of The System, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

On April 30, 2013, Professor Sherman served as the moderator for the Youth in Prison: The Reality of the System at Boston College. The panel discussed the realities of the prison system and efforts being implemented to create positive change.

Foro: Los Aportes De La Sana Antropologia Y Su Incidencia En Los Derechos De La Infancia Y La Adolescencia®, Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo

Daniel Fernando Gómez Tamayo.PhD Canon Law

Partcipant, Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-Site Conference, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Professor Sherman participated in two workshops, Reducing Disparities at the Intersection of Gender, Race and Ethnicity and Eliminating the Use of Detention for Commercially Sexually Exploited Children, at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Inter-site Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.

Member, International Chair On Natural Law And Human Personhood, Scott Fitzgibbon

Scott T. FitzGibbon

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Speaker, Workshop Organizer, Moderator And Presenter, Francine Sherman

Francine T. Sherman

Professor Sherman has served as a Speaker, Workshop Organizer, Moderator, and Presenter for a range of workshops on topics related to detention reform and girls at the Annie E. Casey Foundation Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Annual Conferences since 2000.

Dirty Harry Meets Dirty Diapers: Masculinities, At-Home Fathers & Making The Law Work For Families, Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid

Beth A. Burkstrand-Reid

Who is the “man”? Implicit in that question is whether the man at issue demonstrates traits traditionally associated with masculinity: traits such as power, rejecting all things associated with being female, aggression, and being the family breadwinner. If a man, then, abandons paid work and stays at home full-time with his children, is he still a “man” as typically defined? The answer to this question bears both on whether families are truly evolving away from the gendered construct that places men as family breadwinners and women as caregivers and whether work-family balance law meets the needs of these—and all—families. This …

When The Need To Know Outweighs Privacy: Granting Access To Child Welfare Records In The 50 States, Courtney Barclay

Courtney Barclay

In 2013, the Kansas City Star, reported that, despite thirteen years of transparency under a records disclosure law, the Missouri Department of Social Services initially declined to requests for information regarding three tragic cases of child abuse in 2012, including one fatality. The state disclosure law permits the director of DSS to release information in these kinds of cases. Yet, the Department refused to release records, citing the need to avoid “hinder[ing] the criminal justice system.” This refusal to provide information seemed contrary to more than a decade of policy since the passage of the Missouri disclosure law in 2000 …