To date, more than 132 individuals and 7 organizations have endorsed the International Adoption Policy Statement. This page will be regularly updated with recent endorsements. To learn more about the Campaign to Support Child Rights and International Adoption, click here.
Endorsements:
Organizational Endorsements:
- The American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, May 2008
- Harvard Law School Child Advocacy Program, May 2008
- The Center for Adoption Policy, June 2008
- National Council For Adoption, April 2009 (NCFA Endorsement and Related Article)
- University of San Diego Children’s Advocacy Institute, May 2009
- University of San Francisco – School of Law Child Advocacy Clinic, May 2009
- Both Ends Burning, May 2010
Individual Endorsements:
Law School Faculty Members and Legal Professionals with Expertise in Human Rights, Child Rights, Family Law or related areas:
Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law
Director Centre for Int’l Financial Crimes Studies College of Law, Univ. of Florida
Carlos Ball
Professor of Law
Rutgers University School of Law Newark
Ralph Richard Banks
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law
Stanford Law School
Corinna Barrett Lain
Professor of Law
University of Richmond School of Law
Paulo Barrozo
Harvard University Graduate Program
Assistant Professor of Law
Boston College Law School
Elizabeth Bartholet
Morris Wasserstein Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program
Harvard Law School
Katharine T. Bartlett
A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law
Mary Beck
Clinical Professor of Law
Missouri University
Mildred Bekink
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Mercantile Law College of Law
University of South Africa
South Africa
Derrick Bell
Visiting Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Brian Bix
Frederick W. Thomas Professor of Law and Philosophy
University of Minnesota
Peter Bell
Professor of Law
Syracuse University College of Law
Karen Blum
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
Katharina Boele-Woelki
Professor of Law
Utrecht School of Law, UCERF
Netherlands
Johanna Bond
Associate Professor of Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Kathryn Bradley
Senior Lecturing Fellow
Director of Legal Ethics
Duke Law School
Frank Bress
Professor of Law
New York Law School
Margaret F. Brinig
Fritz Duda Family Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame
The International Society of Family Law
Kelly Browe Olson
Director of Clinical Programs
Associate Professor
U.A.L.R. Bowen School of Law
Elizabeth Bruch
Faculty Associate in Law & Social Policy
Valparaiso University School of Law
Canada
Jessica Budnitz
Lecturer on Law, Managing Director
Child Advocacy Program
Harvard Law School
Andrea Büchler
Prof. Dr. iur., Chair for Private and Comparative Law University of Zurich
Institute for Advanced Study
Berlin University of Zurich
Switzerland
Iraima Capriles
Professor of Law
Ex. Dir. of the Economic, Social and Institutional Council
Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
Dominican Republic
June Rose Carbone
Visiting Professor of Law
George Washington University
Richard Carlson
Professor of Law
South Texas College of Law
Paolo Carozza
Associate Professor of Law
Notre Dame Law School
Commissioner
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Andrea Carroll
C.E. Laborde, Jr. Professor of Law
LSU Law Center
James L. Cavallaro
Clinical Prof of Law, Harvard Law School
Executive Director, Human Rights Program
David Chambers
Wade H. McCree, Jr., Collegiate Professor, Emeritus Univ. of Michigan Law School
Larry O. C. Chukwu
Legal Consultant & Senior Lecturer in Law
Faculty of Law
University of Abuja
Nigeria
Amalia Patricia Cobos Campos
Law School of University of Chihuahua
Mexico
Neil H. Cogan
Vice President for Legal Education
Dean of the Law School
Professor of Law
Whittier Law School
Doriane Coleman
Professor of Law
Duke Law School
Nancy Combs
Professor of Law
William and Mary Law School
John Coons
Prof. of Law (emeritus)
Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley Law School
Pablo Cortes
Lecturer in law
University of Leicester
United Kingdom
Brenda Cossman
Professor of Law
Univ. of Toronto Law School
Canada
Jan Costello
Professor of Law
Loyola Law School – Loyola Marymount Univ.
Stephanie Crino
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Michigan State University College of Law
Ian Curry-Sumner
Associate Professor, Private International Law, Comparative Law and Family Law
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Julie Davies
Professor of Law
University of the Pacific, McGeorge Law School
Madelene De Jong
Professor – Family Law
University of South Africa
South Africa
Sara Dillon
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
Janet Dolgin
Dicker Distinguished Prof. of Health Care Law
Hofstra Law School
Dolores Donovan
Professor of Law
University of San Francisco School of Law
Marija Draskic
Professor of Family Law
School of Law
University of Belgrade
Serbia
Jennifer Drobac
Professor
Indiana Univ. School of Law – Indianapolis
Don Duquette
Clinical Professor of Law
Director Child Advocacy Law Clinic
University of Michigan Law School
James Dwyer
Professor of Law
William & Mary Law SchoolRichard
A. Ellison
Professor of Law
Syracuse University College of Law
Ira Ellman
Professor of Law
Affiliate Professor of Psychology
Willard Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar
Sandra O’Connor College of Law
Arizona State University
Linda Elrod
Richard S. Righter Distinguished Prof. of Law
Director Children and Family Law Center
Washburn University School of Law
Ann Laquer Estin
Professor and Aliber Family Chair
University of Iowa College of Law
Marc Falkoff
Assistant Professor of Law
Northern Illinois University College of Law
Robert Fellmeth
Price Professor of Public Interest Law
University of San Diego
Patricia Fitzsimmons
Director, Child Advocacy Clinic
University San Francisco
Martin Flaherty
Leitner Family Prof. of Int’l Human Rights
Visiting Professor
Fordham Law School/Princeton University
Taylor Flynn
Professor of Law
Western New England College School of Law
Michael Foreman
Director, Civil Rights Appellate Clinic
The Pennsylvania State University
Dickinson School of Law
Ann Freedman
Associate Professor of Law
Rutgers University Law School – Camden
Lance Gable
Assistant Professor of Law
Wayne State University Law School
Sergio Matheus Garcez
ISFL Member
Prof. Dr. Family Law
UNESP
Brazil
Cheryl George
Law Professor
St. Mary’s University School of Law
Nathaniel Gozansky
Professor of Law
Director of International Programs
Emory University School of Law
Karen Graham
Law Student
Temple University, Beasley School of Law
Janet Halley
Royall Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Cynthia Hawkins-Leon
Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law
Jacqueline Heaton
Professor of Law
University of South Africa
South Africa
Joan Heifetz Hollinger
Professor, Lecturer-in-Residence
School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
Cooley R. Howarth, Jr.
Professor of Law
Director of Graduate Studies
University of Dayton School of Law
Deena Hurwitz
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Int’l Human Rights Law Clinic and
Human Rights Program
University of Virginia School of Law
Melanie B. Jacobs
Associate Professor of Law
Michigan State University College of Law
Helen Jenkins
Associate Dean
South Texas College of Law
David Katner
Professor of Clinical Law
Director, Juvenile Law Clinic
Tulane Law School
Jay Kelly
Editor-in-Chief
Pacific McGeorge Global Business and Development Law Journal
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
David Kennedy
V.P. for International Affairs
Interim Director, Watson Institute for International Studies
University Professor of Law
David and Marianna Fisher Univ. Prof. of International Relations
Brown University
Director, European Law Research Center
Harvard Law School
Randall L. Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Kay Kindred
Professor of Law
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law
Madeline Kochen
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Lynne Marie Kohm
John Brown McCarty
Professor of Family Law
Regent University School of Law
Donald Kommers
Joseph and Elizabeth Professor of Political Science Emeritus
Professor of Law Emeritus
University of Notre Dame
Gordana Kovacek Stanic
Professor of Family Law, Comparative Family Law, Inheritance Law
Member of Int’l Society of Family Law
Faculty of Law
Univ. of Novi Sad
Serbia
Candace Kovacic-Fleischer
Professor of Law
American Univ. Washington College of Law
Patrice Kunesh
Associate Professor of Law & Director
Institute of American Indian Studies
University of South Dakota
Paul Kurtz
Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and J. Alton Hosch Professor
University of Georgia Law School
Glenda Labadie-Jackson
Associate Professor
University of Puerto Rico School of Law
Puerto Rico
Kenneth Lasson
Professor of Law
University of Baltimore School of Law
Pamela Laufer-Ukeles
Associate Professor of Law
University of Dayton School of Law
Linda McClain
Professor of Law and Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar
Boston University School of Law
Bruce McGovern
V.P., Associate Dean and Professor of Law South Texas College of Law
Lucy McGough
Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law
Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State Univ.
Michael Meltsner
Matthews Distinguished Univ. Prof. of Law
Northeastern Univ. School of Law
David D. Meyer
Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law
University of Illinois College of Law
Kathryn L. Mercer
Professor of Lawyering Skills
Case Western Reserve Univ. School of Law
Kristian Miccio
Associate Professor of Law
Fulbright Scholar
European Commission Scholar
Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
Martha Minow
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law
Dean of the Faculty of Law
Harvard Law School
Sofia Miranda Rabelo
Lawyer and Professor of Family Law
Universidade Fumec
Brazil
Robert Mnookin
Williston Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Patricia Alzate Monroy
Director of the Office and of Bar Counsel Alzate Monroy & Associates
Lawyer in Spain and Colombia. Ph.D. Canon Law (Rome-Italy)
Ph.D. Civil Law (Zaragoza-Spain)
Spain
Laurence C. Nolan
Professor of Law
Howard University School of Law
Michelle Oberman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
Aviva Orenstein
Professor of Law
Maurer School of Law Indiana University
Damian Ortiz
Clinical Professor of Law
The John Marshall Law School
Maria Donata Panforti
Professor of Comparative Law
University of Modena – Reggio Emilia
The International Society of Family Law
Italy
Deana Pollard-Sacks
Professor of Law
Texas Southern University
Claudia Postelnicescu, Esq.
Bucharest, Romania
Andrés Rodríguez-Benot
Private International Law Professor
Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla
Spain
Victor Romero
Maureen B. Cavanaugh Distinguished Faculty Scholar & Professor of Law
The Pennsylvania State University
Robert Rosen
Professor of Law
Univ. of Miami Law School
Bart Rwezaura
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
The Open University of Tanzania
Tanzania
Rosemary Salomone
Kenneth Wang Professor of Law
St. John’s University School of Law
Martha Hayes Sampson
Senior Lecturer in Law
University of Chester Law School
United Kingdom
John Cary Sims
Professor of Law
Univ. of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Norman J. Singer
Charles O. Stokes Professor of Law
Professor of Anthropology
University of Alabama
Henry J. Steiner
Professor Emeritus
Harvard Law School
Richard F. Storrow
Professor of Law
City University of New York
Mark Strasser
Trustees Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Hazel Thompson- Ahye
Senior Tutor
Eugene Dupuch Law School
The International Society of Family Law
Bahamas
Jay Tidmarsh
Professor of Law
University of Notre Dame
Daniel C. Turack
Professor of Law
Capital University Law School
Beth Van Schaack
Associate Professor of Law
Santa Clara University School of Law
Joseph Vining
Hutchins Professor of Law
University of Michigan Law School
Robert Vischer
Associate Professor
University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
Machteld Vonk
Assistant Professor
Comparative Law and Family Law
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Wolfgang Voegeli
Prof. Dr. iur.
Programme Director M.A. European Studies
University of Hamburg
Germany
Walter Wadlington
James Madison Profesor of Law Emeritus
University of Virginia Law School
Lynn D. Wardle
Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law
Brigham Young University
The International Society of Family Law
Rhonda Wasserman
Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Kelly Weisberg
Professor of Law
U.C. Hastings College of the Law
Mary Welstead
Visiting Prof in Law, Univ. Buckingham, U.K.
Visiting Fellow, Child Advocacy Program
Harvard Law School
Arthur Wolf
Professor of Law
Director, Legislative Institute
Western New England College School of Law
Ann Woolhandler
William Minor Lile Professor of Law
University of Virginia Law School
Virginia Zambrano
Full Professor of Private Comparative Law
University of Salerno
Italy
Gisela Zenz
Professor Dr.jur.Dr.h.c.
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Germany