elow is the preliminary schedule for the Fall 2009 CAP course Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (LAW-30691A). We will update this schedule as we finalize additional speakers and responders. Please see the Course Information, Syllabus, and Schedule for further details.
| Class | Date | Topic | Guest Lecturers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sept. 3 | Course Overview | Elizabeth Bartholet, Prof. of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program
Jessica Budnitz, Lecturer on Law and Managing Director, Child Advocacy Program |
| 2 | Sept. 10 | Children Dying While In Prison | Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative |
| 3 | Sept. 24 | Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems: Spotlight on New Orleans Post-Katrina | LaKeytria Felder, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland
Dana Shoenberg, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Children’s Law and Policy |
| 4 | Oct. 1 | The Secret History of School Choice: A Civil Rights Perspective | James Forman, Jr., Professor of Law, Georgetown; Co-founder, Maya Angelou Public Charter School in Washington D.C.
Responder Panelists:
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| 5 | Oct. 8 | The Crisis in International Adoption: Positions in the Debate | Paulo Barrozo, Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School
David Smolin, Harwell G. Davis Professor of Constitutional Law & Director, Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics, Cumberland School of Law, Samford University |
| 6 | Oct. 15 | Expanding Access to Early Childhood Education | Margaret Blood, Founder and President, Strategies for Children Inc.
Richard Weissbourd, Lecturer in Education, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| 7 | Oct. 22 | Prosecuting Child Abuse: Medical and Legal Perspectives | David Deakin, Assistant District Attorney and Chief of the Family Protection & Sexual Assault Bureau, Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office
Alice Newton, MD, Director of the Child Protection Team, Children’s Hospital, Boston |
| 8 | Oct. 29 | The Pros and Cons of Expanding Children’s Constitutional Rights | James Dwyer, Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School
Martin F. Guggenheim, Boxer Family Professor of Clinical Law, NYU Law |
| 9 | Nov. 5 | Strategies for Reforming Child Protective Systems: The Massachusetts Office of the Child Advocate and Other Strategies | Gail Garinger, The Child Advocate, Office of the Child Advocate, Massachusetts
Erik Pitchal, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School |
| 10 | Nov. 12 | Social Entrepreneurship Under the Obama Administration: The New White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation | Eric Schwarz, C.E.O. and Founder, Citizen Schools |
| 11 | Nov. 19 | Social Entrepreneurship: “A Kind of Genius,” and the Afterschool Alliance | Herb Sturz, Senior Adviser, Open Society Institute; Founding Chairman, The After-School Corporation; Founding Director, Vera Institute of Justice; Board of Directors, Afterschool Alliance
Jodi Grant, Executive Director, Afterschool Alliance |
| 12 | Dec. 3 | Evaluating Success in Child Welfare Reform: Spotlight on Early Home Visitation | Katya Fels Smyth, Founder, On the Rise; Founder, The Full Frame Initiative
David Olds, Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Preventive Medicine; Director, Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health, Univ. of Colorado Denver |