Angela Upchurch
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Associate Professor of Law & Academic Director for the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy
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Ph: 614-236-6535 | Fx: 614-236-6956 | Room: 606 | aupchurch@law.capital.edu
Professor Angela Upchurch is an Associate Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. She was appointed as the Academic Director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy in January 2007. In this capacity, she teaches the only regularly offered Adoption Law course in the nation. Recently, Upchurch participated in a White House roundtable discussion to celebrate National Adoption Day.
Professor Upchurch teaches Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution, Children and Family Law and Adoption Law. Her research interests include procedural law, dispute resolution systems and children and family law issues.
Career Highlights
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Michael Murphy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Avern Cohn, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- Editor-in-Chief, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal
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Selected Publications
- Contributing author in ABA CENTER ON CHILDREN AND THE LAW, A JUDGE'S GUIDE: MAKING CHILD-CENTERED DECISIONS IN CUSTODY CASES (2001).
- Can Granny Have a New Home?: A Proposal for Determining a Change in an Incompetent’s Domicile for Diversity Jurisdiction, 79 University of Colorado Law Review (forthcoming 2008).
- A Postmodern Deconstruction of Frozen Embryo Disputes, 39 Connecticut Law Review 2109 (2007)
- The Deep Freeze: A Critical Examination of the Resolution of Frozen Embryo Disputes Through the Adversarial Process, 33 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 395 (2005)
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Courses
- Children, Families and the State
- Civil Procedure
- Dispute Resolution
- Adoption Law
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Education
- J.D., magna cum laude, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- B.A., summa cum laude, Loyola University Chicago
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