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Nancy Polikoff

Nancy Polikoff is a professor of law emerita at American University Washington College of Law and the co-chair of the 2021 Columbia Journal of Race and Law symposium, “Strengthened Bonds: Abolishing the Child Welfare System and Re-Envisioning Child Well-Being.”

3/27/2023

Asking the Right Questions About Adoption

Roxanna Agarian’s new book dissects the systems and assumptions that take children from families. By Nancy Polikoff Media accounts of particularly violent and heinous crimes, such as school shootings and sniper attacks, often focus on the motivation of the perpetrators.

Fulton

11/3/2020

On Fulton v City of Philadelphia, Both Sides Miss the Most Important Point

By Nancy Polikoff

Nancy Polikoff, American University Washington College of Law. Photo courtesy of Polikoff 
When Catholic Charities faces off against the City of Philadelphia in the U.S. Supreme Court Nov.