Faculty Conversation: Twila Perry on Transracial Adoption and Gentrification
Today's program is a conversation with UB law
professors Susan Mangold, Teri Miller, and Johanna Oreskovic, and
Rutgers University School of Law professor Twila L. Perry*, on
transracial adoption and gentrification. See Professor Perry's
article, Transracial Adoption and Gentrification: An Essay on Race, Power, Family and Community, 26 B.C. Third World L.J. 25 (2006).
Our thanks to Prosit Restaurant in Williamsville, New York. The theme music is Baja Taxi by Brain Buckit, and is available through the Podsafe Music Network.
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*Twila L. Perry is Professor of Law and Judge Alexander P. Waugh, Sr., Scholar at Rutgers University School of Law, where she teaches Torts; Family Law; Children and the Law; and Race, Gender, and Tort Law. Professor Perry earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College, her M.S.W. from the Columbia University School of Social Work, and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar and an editor of the Law Review. She served as law clerk to Judge Mary Johnson Lowe of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was associated with the New York City law firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in the spring of 1984, Professor Perry was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York. Professor Perry writes in the area of family law with a particular interest in the intersection of critical race theory and feminist legal theory. She has published articles on numerous subjects, including transracial and international adoption, the legal obligations of marriage, the black family and family law, no-fault divorce, and alimony.
