Waiting in America: Foster Care to Adoption, CAP's annual conference, held on April 25, 2008, presented a wealth of information concerning this vital topic in adoption. We are pleased to begin posting a series of papers and slides growing out of this meeting.

• Key Factors in Promoting Adoptions
  Susan Livingstone Smith
  Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

• Coming Out the Hard Way: Nonconsensual Disclosure of Sexual Orientation During the Adoption Process
  Nathan A. Schacht
  University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

The United States, the Hague Convention and the Future of International Adoption

Fourth Annual CAP Adoption Law Conference, co-sponsored with the Justice Action Center at New York Law School.

Held on May 18, 2007 at New York Law School.

Science, Technology and Adoption

Third Annual CAP Adoption Law Conference, co-sponsored with the Justice Action Center at New York Law School and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

Held at New York Law School, May 18, 2006.

Gay and Lesbian Adoption: Past, Present, and Future

Second Annual CAP Adoption Law Conference, co-sponsored with the Justice Action Center at New York Law School and the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute .

Held at New York Law School, May 20, 2005.

Summary of Conference

Intercountry Adoption: The European Union and Transnational Law

First Annual CAP Conference on Adoption Law, Co-sponsored with the Justice Action Center at New York Law School and Diplomatic History (The Journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations) .

Held on May 21, 2004 at New York Law School.

Conference Brochure
Summary of Conference Proceedings

Selected Conference Papers presented:

The European Union and International Adoption
Maarten Pereboom, Salisbury University

Adoption and Children's Rights: Getting it So Very Wrong
Sara Dillon, Suffolk University School of Law