Joan Hollinger
reprinted from materials distributed at the symposium
Joan Hollinger is a leading American scholar on the legal and psychosocial aspects of adoptive family relationships. As a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley since 1993, and before that, as a Professor of Law at the University of Detroit in Michigan, she has been devoted to research, teaching, and advocacy on family law issues, especially as they affect the welfare of children. Professor Hollinger is the editor and principal author of
Adoption Law and Practice, (2 vols.), and has published numerous articles in legal and other professional journals.
She is the Reporter (research consultant and drafter) for the proposed Uniform Adoption Act, approved by the National Conference on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) in 1994 and by the American Bar Association in 1995. She is co-editor of an Adoption Reader to be pubished by NYU Press in 2001 and is currently doing research on interstate jurisdictional issues and on different kinds of open adoption issues.
At Berkeley, Professor Hollinger teaches Family Law and seminars on Children and the Law and directs a Child Advocacy Clinic. She and her students have appeared
amicus curiae on behalf of children in a number of precedent-setting cases. She is now
amicus on behalf of the National Association of Counsel for Children (NACC) in the grandparent and third party visitation case under review by the US Supreme Court, Troxel vs. Granville. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College, has a Masters Degree in History from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. with Honors from SUNY Buffalo Law School and is hte recipient of several teaching awards.
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