Capital University Law School and the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy are pleased to offer attorneys the chance to join law students from across the country in the Summer Adoption Law Institute (SALI), an intensive week-long law school course exploring adoption and related child protection issues. The class will cover a wide variety of topics such as: the history of American adoption law, parental rights under the U.S. Constitution, assisted reproductive technology, wrongful adoption, race and cultural issues in adoption, and sexual orientation issues in adoption. This introductory course is designed as a general overview of adoption and is not state specific. The class format includes discussion of issues from academic and practitioner perspectives, and guest lecturers on several key topics.
Credits: 5.0 Monday - Thursday; 3.5 Friday
Fee: $110 Monday -Thursday; $80 Friday
http://www.ncalp.org/summer/
The students will be using the textbook: ADOPTION LAW: THEORY, POLICY, AND PRACTICE (Second Edition) by Cynthia Mabry and Lisa Kelly (Hein 2010) for class. We recommend that you purchase the book to follow along during class. The CULS bookstore is carrying the book. There will also be additional materials handed out in class.
SALI AGENDA
Monday, August 6th, 8:30 - 3:00
- History of Child Welfare and Adoption Law in the United States
- Constitutional Rights in the Family Context
- Protection of Interests: Prerequisites to Adoption
- Notice and Consent Requirements
Tuesday, August 7th, 8:30 - 3:00
- Termination of Parental Rights
- Parties to an Adoption
- Special Issues related to: Stepparent Adoption; Kinship Adoptions; Single Parent Adoptions
- The Adoption Process
- Final Adoption Decrees
Wednesday, August 8th, 8:30 - 3:00
- Open Adoption
- Panel: Actors in Process: Members of the Adoption Triad
- Confidentiality and Records in Adoption
- Post-Adoption Contact
- Disrupted and Wrongful Adoptions, and Agency Misconduct
Thursday, August 9th, 8:30 - 3:00
- Historical background of cultural issues in the context of adoption
- Multiethnic Placement Act and enforcement (MEPA)
- Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)
- Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC)
- International Adoption and Immigration
Friday, August 10th, 8:30 - 12:15
- Adoption of Special Needs Children and Subsidies
- Adoption by Same-Sex Couples (Second Parent and Co-Parenting)
- Frozen Embryos and the Impact of Artificial Reproductive Technology on Adoption Law
- Current Issues in Adoption Law
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