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...both Budnitz and Elizabeth Bartholet ’62, the faculty director of CAP, agreed that what they do is still not enough...
...There’s more we would like to do that we can’t possibly do with limited staff that we have,” Bartholet said...
...Mullens charge that caseworkers delayed the adoption in order to seek an African-American home. Their case is bolstered by a separate class action against the state of Texas, filed jointly by lawyers at the conservative Institute for Justice in Washington and three liberal Harvard law professors--Elizabeth Bartholet, Randall Kennedy and Laurence Tribe--that aims to have race-matching practices declared unconstitutional. Argues Tribe: "Leaving African-American kids in foster care rather than allowing them to be adopted by loving parents inflicts very serious harm on children...
...office, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, and various law schools from across the country. The conference was intended to shed light on children’s issues, which is one of the most underserved areas of the law, according to Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law Elizabeth Bartholet, who is the director of CAP. “That’s a large part of why we decided to do this conference,” Bartholet said. “We want to get the word out that we’re trying.” Judith S. Kaye...
More than 20 years ago, when she was still a lecturer in law on the campus north of Harvard Yard, Elizabeth Bartholet left the confines of Cambridge for the muggy warmth of Lima, Peru.It was the fall of 1985, and she wanted to adopt a child. With little more than 40 $100 bills tucked into the bottom of her shoes, she boarded the airplane.But after she landed, Bartholet discovered over her three-month stay that many laws designed to help children were actually hurting them. Today, her first adopted son, Christopher, is 21 years old. But the laws handicapping...