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View AllProf. Dorothy Roberts Discusses the Link Between the Anti-Abortion Movement & “Replacement Theory”: MSNBC
May 23, 2022
Child Welfare System Abolition
May 9, 2022
Prof. Roberts recently spoke to The Pennsylvania Gazette about her new book, Torn Apart.
Penn Carey Law Reacts to Leaked Opinion
May 3, 2022
Profs. Roosevelt and Wolff as well as student leaders of a pro bono reproductive justice project share their insights.
Outstanding Faculty Achievement
May 2, 2022
Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Regulation of Black Families
April 20, 2022
“The United States should replace its current family surveillance system with one that improves children’s welfare,” writes Prof. Roberts at The Regulatory Review.
Centering Youth Voices
April 19, 2022
Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic students represent their youth clients on a range of issues including dependency, custody, and education matters.
Child Welfare System Myths
April 18, 2022
“No, most children in foster care haven’t been rescued from abuse,” writes Prof. Roberts in The Washington Post.
Prof. Dorothy Roberts Says the ‘So-Called Child Welfare System’ and Criminal Law Enforcement Are ‘Symbiotic’: Jezebel
April 6, 2022
Abolishing the Child Welfare System
April 6, 2022
Mother Jones recently published an excerpt of Prof. Roberts’ new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.
At The Philadelphia Inquirer, Prof. Dorothy Roberts argues that the child welfare system can destroy families
March 29, 2022
“Home inspections . . may lead to intensive monitoring that lasts for years, forced separation of children, and, at the extreme, the permanent termination of parental rights,” writes Roberts.
Prof. Dorothy Roberts traces the history of race and the regulation of Black women’s bodies in chapter for The 1619 Project
March 24, 2022
Roberts is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender, and the law, and is the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science & Society in the Center for Africana Studies.
Art and architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School: Dr. Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Ed’1918, G’1921, L’1927, Hon’1974
March 18, 2022
“I certainly see her as an inspiration and a role model,” said Dorothy E. Roberts, the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights.