2022 Kansas Law Review Symposium
2022 Kansas Law Review Symposium
“Parents” and the Modern Family: What Do the Evolving Laws of Parenting Mean for Children and the Rest of Us?
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. (Check-in and breakfast from 8:30-9:30 a.m.)
203 Green Hall
Families living in the United States are more economically, racially, and socially diverse than ever before. And yet, the law has inconsistently—and sometimes inadequately—protected the interests of individuals who parent outside of the functionalist nuclear family model. But how do laws that protect, establish, disestablish, regulate, or otherwise imagine "parenting" impact the rights of children and childhood outcomes?
The Kansas Law Review Symposium will host a panel of scholars from across the country to respond to this essential question, as well as to propose legal reforms to improve outcomes for the children of America's modern families.
No CLE credit will be offered during the Symposium.
The symposium is sponsored by the Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy.
Scholarship associated with the Symposium will be published in a spring 2023 edition of the Kansas Law Review.
Symposium Schedule
| Time | Speaker |
|---|---|
| 8:30-9:30 a.m. | Breakfast and Social Hour Second Floor Commons |
| 9:30-9:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks
|
| 9:45-10:30 a.m. | Catherine Smith |
| 10:30-10:45 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 10:45-11:10 a.m. | Charisa Kiyô Smith Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law “Of Empathy Gaps & Family Survival: How COVID Capitalism Silences Children” |
| 11:10-11:35 a.m. | Sacha Coupet Professor of Law, School of Law, Loyola University Chicago “Parents as Partners in Protecting Democracy” |
| 11:35-11:50 a.m. | Question & Answer |
| 11:50 a.m.-12:50 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1-1:15 p.m. | Afternoon Remarks
|
| 1:15-1:40 p.m. | Neoshia Roemer Assistant Professor of Law, College of Law, University of Idaho “Parenting and the Ninth Amendment” |
| 1:40-2:05 p.m. | Melanie Daily Clinical Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law “Finding a Place for Children in the Law of Disestablishing Relationships” |
| 2:05-2:15 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 2:15-2:40 p.m. | Gillian Chadwick Associate Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law “The Noncitizen Parent Trap” |
| 2:40-2:55 p.m. | Question & Answer |
| 2:55-3:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
- Catherine Smith | Strum College of Law, University of Denver
- Catherine Smith has been on the faculty at the University of Denver School of Law since 2004. She teaches torts, employment discrimination, family law, and sexuality, gender and the law. Her research interests include civil rights law and critical race theory. Her articles have been published in a number of journals, including Wisconsin Law Review, Washington University Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review and the Ohio State Law Journal. Additionally, Smith co-authored an amicus brief on the constitutional rights of children that was cited in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark United States Supreme Court same-sex marriage decision.
Additional Speakers:
Charisa Kiyô Smith | CUNY School of Law | Associate Professor
Sacha Coupet | Loyola University Chicago School of Law | Professor of Law
Neoshia Roemer | University of Idaho College of Law | Assistant Professor of Law
Melanie Daily | University of Kansas School of Law | Clinical Associate Professor
Gillian Chadwick | Washburn University School of Law | Associate Professor
Cost
The symposium is free and open to the public, but registration will be required.
Registration
Registration for this event has closed.
Program Accessibility
We accommodate persons with disabilities. Please submit your request no later than November 1 to Rebecca Clayton at rclayton@ku.edu or 785-864-2388 TTY: 711.
Symposium Issue
Scholarship associated with the symposium will be published in a spring 2023 issue of the Kansas Law Review.
Questions?
Contact Symposium Editor Doug Bartel at 2022kulawreviewsymposium@gmail.com
Contact the Kansas Law Review
Faculty Advisors
Christopher Drahozal
drahozal@ku.edu
785-864-9239
Laura Hines
lhines@ku.edu
785-864-9265
