Streaming Video of Five Conference Sessions

of the

ABA 12th National Conference on Children and the Law

in partnership with the

"Promoting Children's Interests: Preparation, Practice & Policy Reform"
April 13-15, 2007

Welcomes & Introductions

Howard Davidson, Director, ABA Center on Children and the Law

Elizabeth Bartholet, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School

Opening Remarks

Elena Kagan, Dean of the Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School

Karen J. Mathis, President, American Bar Association

Opening Keynote: Thoughts on Preparing the Next Generation of Child Advocates

Introduction: Harry Spence, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Social Services.

The Honorable Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, State of New York

Professor John E.B. Myers, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA
and author of Myers on Evidence in Child, Domestic, and Elder Abuse Cases (Aspen Publishers, 2005)

Dr. Jessica Greenwald O’Brien, Clinical Forensic Psychologist, Boston, MA
Amy Karp, Training Director, Mass. Committee for Public Counsel Services, Children and Family Law Program, Boston, MA
Susan Cole, lecturer and clinical instructor, Harvard Law School, and director, Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative/Special Education Clinic at Harvard's Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center, Boston

Olivia Golden, Director of Operations, Office of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer; former Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, Washington DC
Michael Wald, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, CA
Moderator: Charles Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and Founding and Executive Director of Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Responder: Honorable Martha Grace, Chief Justice, Juvenile Court, Boston, MA