The Role of Adoption in a Post-Dobbs America
Speakers
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Elizabeth R. KirkDirector of the Center for Law & the Human PersonElizabeth R. Kirk is an Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and the Human Person at the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. Her scholarship focuses on law and the family, including issues such as parental rights, reproductive technologies, abortion jurisprudence, child welfare, and adoption. Her work has been published by the Institute for Family Studies, Humanum, Public Discourse, First Things, the Texas Review of Law & Politics, and the Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy (forthcoming).
From 2018 to 2020, she served as Director and Kowalski Chair of Catholic Thought at the Institute for Faith and Culture at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas.
About the Event
Catholic Law's Center for Law and the Human Person hosted a panel discussion on the role of infant adoption after the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overruled Roe v. Wade. The program, "The Role of Adoption in a Post-Dobbs America" was held on campus in the William J. Byron S.J. Auditorium.
