Session 1A: Gay Adoption Legal Issues
Daniel Avila, Esq., Massachusetts Catholic Conference: Mandates, Conscience, and Child Welfare: Same-Sex Adoption in Massachusetts, the Catholic Church, and the Good of the Children: The Story Behind the Controversy and the Case for Conscientious Refusals
Mark Strasser, Capital University Law School: A Constitutional Right to Adopt and to be Adopted
Session 1B: International Adoption Issues
Jini L. Roby, JD, MSW, MS, School of Social Work, Brigham Young University: Children’s Rights in International Adoptions: Best Practice Guidelines for Legal, Cultural and Developmental Protection
C. Louise Brown, MS, M.S.W., L.C.S.W.: International Adoptions and Deportation: The Right to Citizenship and Protection
Lynn D. Wardle, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University: Regulation of Adoptions by Homosexual Couples or Individuals Under the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption and American Implementing Law
Session 1C: Domestic Adoption Issues
Allen M. Parkman, Ph.D., J.D., Anderson Schools of Management, University of New Mexico: An Economic Analysis of Adoption and Adoption Law
Scott Clark, Esq., Ray Quinney & Nebeker: The rights of Adoptive Children: Who Decides??
Larry S. Jenkins, Wood Crapo, LLC: Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children: Driving in Reverse
Rhona Schuz, Sha'arei Mishpat Law College, Israel: The Right of a Child to be Brought up by his Biological Parents -- Lessons from the "child of strife" Case
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| 23 | 5th Annual National Sweatpants Day |
| 26 | Thanksgiving |
