Presentations & Conferences
Papers
“Fair Hearing, Due Process and Unaccompanied Minors,” Rutgers Law School (Oct. 2021).
“Fair Hearing, Due Process and Unaccompanied Minors,” Santa Clara University School of Law (Sept. 2021).
“Cooperative Federalism,” The University of Texas School of Law (July 2021).
“Fair Hearing, Due Process and Unaccompanied Minors,” Michigan State University College of Law (Jul. 2021).
“Fair Hearing, Due Process and Unaccompanied Minors,” Texas A&M School of Law (Sept. 2021).
“A Center on Children and Families for the Future,” A discussion of Daedalus on Access to Justice by Kenneth C. Frazier, Martha Minow, David Rubenstein, and Rebecca Sandefur, Politics & Prose Bookstore (Washington, D.C., May 2019).
“Immigration, Adoption, and Our National Identity,” Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy Symposium—Immigration, Adoption and Our National Identity (Feb. 2019) (symposium organized around this article; discussants included Dean Kerry Abrams and Prof. Katheryn Bradley).
“Fair Hearing, Due Process and Unaccompanied Minors,” SEALS (Jan. 2018) (participated virtually).
“Alone and Unrepresented: How the United States’ Failure to Provide Legal Counsel to Unaccompanied Minors Lags Behind Developing International and Regional Human Rights Standards,” University of San Francisco School of Law (Dec. 2011).
“Alone and Unrepresented: How the United States’ Failure to Provide Legal Counsel to Unaccompanied Minors Lags Behind Developing International and Regional Human Rights Standards,” 4th Annual Midwest Family Law Consortium (June 2011).
“Alone and Unrepresented: How the United States’ Failure to Provide Legal Counsel to Unaccompanied Minors Lags Behind Developing International and Regional Human Rights Standards,” Cumberland School of Law 2010-2011, Works in Progress Series (Apr. 2011) (invited).
“Owning Laura Silsby’s Shame: How the Haitian Child Trafficking Scheme Embodies the Western Disregard for the Integrity of Poor Families,” International Society of Family Law Regional Conference (Mar. 2011).
“The Family Law Canon in a (Post?) Racial Era,” Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law (Sept. 2010) (invited).
“Challenging MonoHumanism: An Argument for Changing the Way We Think About Intercountry Adoption,” SEALS, New Scholars Workshop, Palm Beach, FL (Aug. 2008).
“Challenging MonoHumanism: An Argument for Changing the Way We Think About Intercountry Adoption,” Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica (July 2008).
“Challenging MonoHumanism: An Argument for Changing the Way We Think About Intercountry Adoption,” Gender, Family Responsibility, and Legal Change Conference, Sussex Law School, Brighton, UK (July 2008).
“Challenging MonoHumanism: An Argument for Changing the Way We Think About Intercountry Adoption,” Law and Society Annual Meeting, Quebec, Canada (June 2008).
Presentations
“Special Virtual Visit to First Graders at Garrison Elementary School,” An Open Book Foundation Event: Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action (Washington, D.C., Feb. 2021).
“How to Write a Children’s Book,” The Gordon School of Beth David Congregation, Pre-K Class (Mar. 2019).
“A Symposium on the Work of Dorothy Roberts,” University of California Irvine (May 2012) (invited).
Essential Ethics for Advocates: Avoiding the Unauthorized Practice of Law, Annual COPAA (Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates) Conference (Mar. 2012).
2011 Emory Public Interest Committee Conference on Child Law (Oct. 2011) (invited).
The Ethics of Representing Children, Florida Bar Foundation, Children’s Legal Services Grantees Conference (Oct. 2010) (invited).
“Training Lawyers for the 21st Century,” panel, The Florida Chapter of the AFCC: Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, Seventh Annual Conference (Feb. 2009).
Advanced School Discipline and Special Education Training, Morrison & Foerster (Jan. 2006).
Various School Discipline and Special Education Trainings, Legal Services for Children (2005-2006).
Rights of San Francisco Children in School When Confronted by the Police, San Francisco Community Assessment and Referral Center (June 2005).
Panels
Moderator and Panelist, “Careers and College,” Harvard Alumni Association of Miami, at Breakthrough Miami, Ransom Everglades School (Apr. 2017).
Panelist, “Careers and College,” Harvard Alumni Association of Miami, at Breakthrough Miami, Miami Country Day School (Apr. 2017).
Panelist, “Routable discussion: International collaboration,” International Society of Family Law Regional Conference (Nov. 2014).
Panelist, “Women, Work, and Family in the 2012 Presidential Campaign,” University of Florida, Levin College of Law (Sept. 2012) (invited).
Moderator, “Shifting Family Responsibilities and Legal Change” panel, Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference, Sussex Law School, Brighton, UK (July 2008).
Panelist, Careers in Child Advocacy, Harvard Law School, co-sponsored by the Child Advocacy Program and the Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising at Harvard Law School (Dec. 2007) (invited).
Other Presentations
Participant, The Juvenile Justice Racial and Ethnic Disparities Vision for the Future meeting (Dec. 2011) (Co-sponsored by the Center on Children and Families and the W. Haywood Burns Inst.).
Participant, Workshop on Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System (Apr. 2011) (Co-sponsored by the Center on Children and Families and the W. Haywood Burns Inst.).
Participant, Invitation-Only Conference: Race and Child Welfare: Disproportionality, Disparity, Discrimination: Re-Assessing the Facts, Re-Thinking the Policy Options, Harvard Law School (Jan. 2011).
Lecture, “Recent Approaches to Defining and Regulating the Family,” The University of Warsaw Common Law Society, University of Warsaw (May 2009) (invited).
Guest Lecturer, Child Advocacy Clinic, University of San Francisco—School of Law, San Francisco, CA (Apr. 2006).
Guest Lecturer, School Discipline Clinic, University of California, Berkeley—Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, CA (Mar. 2006).
