Upcoming Conferences

 

Symposium on Domestic Violence Law & Policy
Custody & Abuse Litigation and The Supreme Court
December 7 & 8, 2007

Throughout the country, battered mothers and children have been subjected to unjust court processes that have violated their most basic due process rights and resulted in abusive fathers gaining custody of their children.

The Symposium will bring together leading Supreme Court scholars and litigators with expert domestic violence and child custody lawyers to create a set of best practices for bringing these due process violations for redress to the United States Supreme Court. 

If you would like to register for the symposium, please click here.

Symposium Agenda

• December 7th will focus on the problems in family court and is open to the public.
• December 8th, for attorneys and invited guests, is a working program for Supreme Court litigators and dv/custody lawyers. Domestic violence & pro bono attorneys are encouraged to participate.

Confirmed Speakers 

• Friday, 1 to 5 PM
  • Richard Ducote, leading domestic violence/custody lawyer
  • Joan Meier, Director, DV LEAP and Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School
  • Wendy Titleman, survivor (recently filed cert petition in the Supreme Court)
  • Irene Weiser, Stop Family Violence
  • Joyanna Silberg, Ph.D., Leadership Council on Child Abuse & Interpersonal Violence.
• Saturday, 9 to 4 PM
  • John Duffy, Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
  • Seth Galanter, Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • Greg Jacobs, Justice for Children
  • Barbara McDowell, Legal Aid Society of D.C.
  • Patricia Millett, Akin Gump
  • Paul Smith, Jenner & Block LLP
  • Barry Sullivan, Jenner & Block, LLP

For more information or for additional assistance, please contact our Symposium management partner, The Balcom Group. You can reach them at 804-580-8352.

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Battered Women, Abused Children, and Child Custody:
A National Crisis
January 11th - 13th 2008
Friday Evening - Sunday Evening
The Albany Clarion Hotel and Conference Center
Albany, New York

Visit www.batteredmotherscustodyconference.org
for additional information, hotel reservations, and conference registration.

Limited scholarships will be available to assist battered mothers to attend the conference.
See attached brochure for details.

Come join with mothers, advocates, and professionals from across the nation to hear and dialogue with. . .

Wendy Murphy, Angela Shelton, Lundy Bancroft, Toby Kleinman, Joan Zorza, Diane and Kristen Hofheimer, Nancy Erickson, Barry Goldstein, Robin Yeamans, Garland Waller, Seth Goldstein, Geri Stahly, Joy Silberg, Rita Henley-Jensen, Renee Beeker, Dianne Post, Marcia Pappas, Ben Atherton-Zeman, Wendy Titelman, and many others who are working to combat the legal injustices facing protective mothers in the nation's family/divorce courts.

Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships: Connecting Agendas and Forging New Directions
February 28 - 29, 2008
Hyatt Regency - Bethesda, MD
Schedule at a Glance
Registration information
Call for submissions

Co-sponsored by Divisions 35, 44 and 56. The Leadership Council is a collaborator.

Plenary Speakers: Arun Gandhi, Mary Koss, Jacquelyn Campbell, and David Finkelhor.

Topics include: Intimate Partner Violence, Child Maltreatment, Children Exposed to Violence and Abuse, Elder Abuse, Gender-Based Issues, Cultural Issues, Substance Abuse, and related themes. The focus will be on What We Know, What We Need to Know, and Where Do We Need to Go with respect to Research, Intervention, and Prevention.

5th Annual Hawaii Conference on Preventing, Assessing & Treating Childhood, Adolescent & Adult Trauma.
April 2-4, 2008
www.IVATcenters.org

For more information contact Lauren Ossola, Professional Training and Continuing Education Coordinator; ivatptce@alliant.edu

13th International Conference on Violence, Abuse and Trauma
(Formerly the International Conference on Family Violence)
September 12-17 2008
Town & Country Resort & Convention Center
500 Hotel Circle North (off Interstate 8)
San Diego, California 92108

A premiere, cost-effective, multidisciplinary conference that brings over 1,500 people and agencies together to make a significant positive impact on creating violence and abuse-free homes, communities, and societies.