Browsing HLS Scholarly Articles by Author "Bartholet, Elizabeth"
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Application of Title VII to Jobs in High Places
Bartholet, Elizabeth (1982) -
Beyond Biology: The Politics of Adoption & Reproduction
Bartholet, Elizabeth (1995)It is exciting simply to be having this conference focused on adoption law and policy. I remember some nine years ago starting to plan a course dealing with adoption issues and wondering whether I would be able to justify ... -
Book Review
Bartholet, Elizabeth (1992) -
Book Review
Bartholet, Elizabeth (Taylor & Francis, 2016) -
Creating a Child-Friendly Child Welfare System: Effective Early Intervention to Prevent Maltreatment and Protect Victimized Children
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2012)This article argues that what we call the “child welfare” system has traditionally focused more on adult than on child welfare, placing greater emphasis on family preservation than warranted. It argues further that while ... -
Creating a Child-Friendly Child Welfare System: The Use and Misuse of Research
Bartholet, Elizabeth (Whittier Law School, 2014) -
Creating a Child-Friendly Child Welfare System: The Use and Misuse of Research
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2013)This article, a revised speech, contends that what we call the child welfare system is skewed in an adult-rights direction, and is often quite hostile to child interests. The field is characterized by an unusual amount ... -
The Debate, in Intercountry Adoption: Policies, Practices, and Outcomes
Bartholet, Elizabeth (Ashgate Publishing, 2012) -
Differential Response: A Dangerous Experiment in Child Welfare
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2014-08-06)Differential Response (DR) represents the most important child welfare initiative of the day, with DR programs rapidly expanding throughout the country. It would radically change our child welfare system, diverting the ... -
Fairness For All Students Under Title IX
Bartholet, Elizabeth; Gertner, Nancy; Halley, Janet E.; Gersen, Jeannie Suk (2017)Four feminist law professors at Harvard Law School have called on the U.S. Department of Education to revise the previous Administration’s policies on sexual harassment and sexual assault on campus. In a memo submitted to ... -
Guiding Principles for Picking Parents
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2004)This paper looks at our new technological ability to determine genetic paternity, in the context of legal and social developments related to the family, and tries to come up with some guidelines for figuring out how to ... -
The Hague Convention: Pros, Cons and Potential
Bartholet, Elizabeth (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)This revised speech describes the Hague Convention’s significance both in terms of the law on the books and the law on the ground. The Convention’s language advanced child rights in international law to the protection of ... -
Homeschooling: Parent Rights Absolutism vs. Child Rights to Education & Protection
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2020)This article describes the rapidly growing homeschooling phenomenon, and the threat it poses to children and society. Homeschooling activists have in recent decades largely succeeded in their deregulation campaign, ... -
Intergenerational Justice for Children: Restructuring Adoption Reproduction & Child Welfare
Bartholet, Elizabeth (De Gruyter, 2014)An intergenerational justice perspective requires that we look at the condition of the existing generation of children and those to be born in the future. Many millions of the existing generation of children are now in ... -
Intergenerational Justice for Children: Restructuring Adoption, Reproduction & Child Welfare Policy
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2014)This article takes seriously the idea of intergenerational justice for children, and takes as starting premises that child interests count as equivalent to adult, and that we owe justice not just to existing children but ... -
The International Adoption Cliff: Do Child Human Rights Matter?
Bartholet, Elizabeth (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013)This revised speech characterizes the dramatic decline in international adoption since 2004 as a major child human rights tragedy, deliberately created by governmental and NGO policy-makers. It contrasts U.S. human rights ... -
International Adoption: A Way Forward
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2011)This is the introduction to a special issue of articles on international adoption, summing up their relevance to the debate in the field. International adoption is in turmoil, with a dramatic reduction in recent years in ... -
International Adoption: The Child's Story
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2008)Millions of infants and young children worldwide are desperately in need of nurturing homes. Many are living in institutions, and many on the streets, and almost all these children will either die in these situations, or ... -
International Adoption: The Human Rights Position
Bartholet, Elizabeth (2009-08-31)International adoption is under siege, with the number of children placed dropping each of the last several years, and many countries imposing severe new restrictions. Key forces mounting the attack claim the child human ... -
Letter from Elizabeth Bartholet, James Cavallaro, & Christine Desan, Faculty, Harvard Law School, to the U.S. Congress on Recent Human Rights Issues in Iraq
Bartholet, Elizabeth; Cavallaro, James Louis; Desan, Christine (2004)