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January 5th 2022: Amy Coney Barrett and the Legacy of Transracial Adoption

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is a lawyer, scholar, and mother of 7--including 2 adopted Black children. Transracial adoption falls within a painful legacy for African-Americans--a legacy of paternalism that dates back to slavery. Within that framework is also the belittling of Black women and the dismissal of Black motherhood, and the legacy of intervention in Black maternal-fetal decision making. This week my guests, Professor Eleanor Brown of Penn State Law and Kimberly Mutcherson, Co-Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden, will explain this painful legacy,

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Eleanor Brown

Eleanor Brown is a professor of law at Penn State Law. She also is a professor of international affairs in the School of International Affairs (SIA), and a senior scientist in the Rock Ethics Institute. A leading scholar of property, migration, globalization, development, and the law, Brown has been published in the California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the New York University Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, among many others. She has also published with The New Republic, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times and has been a commentator on NPR. Among Brown’s academic accolades, her paper, “The Blacks Who ‘Got’ Their 40 Acres,” was

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Kimberly Mutcherson

Kimberly Mutcherson is Co-Dean and Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. Her scholarly work sits at the intersection of family law, health law, and bioethics. Dean Mutcherson writes on issues related to reproductive justice with a particular focus on assisted reproduction, abortion, and maternal-fetal decision-making. She received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

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