Professor Carol S. Bruch is First CFLC Scholar in Residence
Carol S. Bruch, Distinguished Professor Emerita and Research Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, will visit Washburn University School of Law from October 2-4, 2007 as the first Children and Family Law Center Scholar in Residence. During her visit Professor Bruch will make presentations to the family law class, the child advocacy class and the faculty.
Professor Bruch is an internationally recognized family law scholar, known for her work in family law, marital property law and the conflict of laws. She may be best known for her work countering the late Dr. Richard Gardner who created the "parental alienation syndrome." She demonstrated repeatedly that parent alienation was not a "syndrome" within the meaning of the profession. Bruch also wrote one of the amicus briefs in the In re Marriage of Burgess case in California which remains one of the most significant cases in the area of relocation of a custodial parent.
Bruch was an honors graduate of Boalt Hall and clerk for the late US Supreme Court Justice Wm. O. Douglas. She served for several years as chair of the UC Davis interdisciplinary doctoral program in Human Development. The Davis campus awarded her its first Public Service Award in recognition of her extensive law reform successes, and the University of Basel, Switzerland granted her an honorary doctoral degree for her work on behalf of children. She sits on the Executive Council of the International Society of Family Law and the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on Private International Law.
More information about Professor Bruch, including a list of her publications, is available at the UC Davis School of Law web site.
