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Review Holds First Wells Conference on Adoption Law
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Left to Right: Professor Floyd Weatherspoon, Martin Guggenheim, Mrs. Sigrid Wells, Dean Jack Guttenberg, Law Review Editor-in-Chief Jayne Juvan, Wells Conference Coordinator Brooke Chesney, Professor Kent Markus, and Professor James Beattie |
The Capital University Law Review held its first annual Wells Conference on Adoption Law on Friday, April 1, 2005.
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, director for the Center on Children and Families and the David H. Levin Chair in Family Law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, was the lead speaker. She also was named this academic year's Sullivan Lecturer after Professor Erwin Chemerinsky cancelled due to an oral argument scheduled by the California Supreme Court in the case of Johnson v. Ford Motor Co. Other nationally known speakers included Martin Guggenheim (New York University College of Law), Elizabeth Bartholet (Havard Law School), and D. Marianne Blair (University of Tulsa College of Law).
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, 2004-05 Wells Conference Speaker and Sullivan Lecturer |
Most discussions regarding placement of children focus on the rights of the adoptive parents, the biological parents, and the state. The main topic of this conference was the child’s perspective on adoption and child welfare. From this unique perspective, speakers discussed and debated their views on issues in transracial placements, international law, child welfare and liberty interests.
"This conference is named in honor of Professor Emeritus N. Douglas Wells who passed away last summer," said Jayne Juvan, editor-in-chief of the Law Review. "To show our appreciation for his contributions to the law school in the area of Family Law, the Law Review dedicated this academic conference to a study of issues arising in adoption and child welfare."
Articles from the conference will be published in an upcoming issue of the Law Review. To purchase the issue, contact the Law Review at 614-236-6789.
