Tag: Dorothy E. Roberts

Prof. Roberts recently spoke to The Pennsylvania Gazette about her new book, Torn Apart.

Profs. Roosevelt and Wolff as well as student leaders of a pro bono reproductive justice project share their insights.

Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

“The United States should replace its current family surveillance system with one that improves children’s welfare,” writes Prof. Roberts at The Regulatory Review.

Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic students represent their youth clients on a range of issues including dependency, custody, and education matters.

“No, most children in foster care haven’t been rescued from abuse,” writes Prof. Roberts in The Washington Post.

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​.

“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.

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.

“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.