{{short description|American academic}} {{Infobox person | name = Elizabeth Bartholet | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = Civil rights and family law, specializing in child welfare, adoption and reproductive technology, homeschooling opposition | education = | alma_mater = Radcliffe College<br />Harvard Law School | employer = Harvard Law School | occupation = | title = Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Founding Faculty Director Harvard Law School's Child Advocacy Program | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = }}
'''Elizabeth Bartholet''' is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10048/Bartholet|title=Elizabeth Bartholet {{!}} Harvard Law School|last=School|first=Harvard Law|language=en|access-date=2019-02-25}}</ref> and Faculty Director of Harvard Law School's Child Advocacy Program (CAP).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cap.law.harvard.edu|title=CAP website|date=2015-07-02|website=Child Advocacy Program|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-25}}</ref> She teaches civil rights and family law, specializing in child welfare, adoption and reproductive technology.
Before joining the Harvard Faculty, she was engaged in civil rights and public interest work, first with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and later as founder and director of the Legal Action Center, a non-profit organization in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues.
Bartholet is a supporter of the #MeToo movement, but has criticized some of what she considers its excesses.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/1/16/bartholet-metoo-excesses/|title=#MeToo Excesses {{!}} Opinion {{!}} The Harvard Crimson|author=Bartholet, Elizabeth|date=January 16, 2018 |website=www.thecrimson.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-25}}</ref>
Bartholet is an outspoken opponent of the homeschooling movement and has urged governments to implement policies to make it protect homeschooled children from abuse.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling|title=The Risks of Homeschooling|author=O'Donnell, Erin|date=May–June 2020 |work=Harvard Magazine|language=en|access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author= Elizabeth Bartholet|date=2020 |title=Homeschooling: Parent Rights Absolutism vs. Child Rights to Education & Protection |url=https://arizonalawreview.org/homeschooling-parent-rights-absolutism-vs-child-rights-to-education-protection/ |journal=Arizona Law Review |volume=62 |issue=1 |pages=1 |access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref> Bartholet helped to organize the Summit to Regulate Homeschooling to be held at the Harvard Law School on June 18–19, 2020. Her co-organizer, William and Mary law professor James Dwyer, is the author of a 1994 law review article entitled "Parents' Religion and Children's Welfare: Debunking the Doctrine of Parents' Rights" (82 Calif. L. Rev. 1371), claiming that the fundamental civic relationship is not that between parents and children but between the individual and the state.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hslda.org/content/hs/state/ma/20200324-harvard-summit-to-discuss-regulating-homeschooling.aspx|title=Harvard Summit to Discuss Regulating Homeschooling|work=HSLDA|author=Jones, Darren|date=March 27, 2020|language=en|access-date=2020-04-20}}</ref>
During the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, when school closures forced necessary homeschooling,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/heather-creekmore-how-to-make-homeschooling-work-for-you|title=Heather Creekmore: Coronavirus introduces millions of families to homeschooling – Here is how to make it work|first=Heather|last=Creekmore|date=March 31, 2020|website=Fox News}}</ref> her previously published perspective on homeschooling<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bartholet |first=Elizabeth |title=Homeschooling: Parent Rights Absolutism vs Child Rights to Education & Protection |url=https://arizonalawreview.org/pdf/62-1/62arizlrev1.pdf |access-date=May 1, 2024 |website=arizonalawreview.org}}</ref> was published in Harvard Magazine's May–June 2020 issue in an article by Erin O'Donnell.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/05/right-now-risks-homeschooling|title=The Risks of Homeschooling|first=Erin|last=O'Donnell|date=April 10, 2020|website=Harvard Magazine}}</ref> Bartholet's anti-homeschooling views received media attention<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/harvard-homeschool-article-dangerous-parents-risk|title=Harvard prof calls homeschooling 'dangerous,' says it gives parents 'authoritarian control' over kids|first=Caleb|last=Parke|date=April 21, 2020|website=Fox News}}</ref> and drew criticism from homeschool proponents.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/proposals-to-ban-homeschooling-are-an-attack-on-pluralism/|author=Bauer, Fred|website=National Review |title=Proposals to Ban Homeschooling Are an Attack on Pluralism|date=April 20, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/harvard-prof-calls-for-ban-on-homeschooling-responses-emerge.html|author=Showalte, Brandon |title=Harvard prof. calls for ban on homeschooling, responses emerge|website=The Christian Post|date=20 April 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://albertmohler.com/2020/04/20/briefing-4-20-20|author=Mohler, Albert |title=The Briefing - Monday, April 20, 2020|website=albertmohler.com|date=20 April 2020 }}</ref>
Bartholet's publications include ''Nobody's Children: Abuse and Neglect, Foster Drift, and the Adoption Alternative'' (Beacon Press, 1999) and ''Family Bonds: Adoption, Infertility, and the New World of Child Production'' (Beacon Press, 1999), as well as numerous law review articles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/bartholet/pubs.php|title=HLS : Elizabeth Bartholet: Publications|website=www.law.harvard.edu|language=en|access-date=2019-02-25}}</ref>
Bartholet earned a A.B. degree from Radcliffe College in 1962,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=About Elizabeth Bartholet|url=https://bartholet.wpengine.com/|access-date=2020-11-10}}</ref> and was granted their Alumnae Recognition Award in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cap.law.harvard.edu/faculty-and-staff/|title=CAP Faculty and Staff |website=cap.law.harvard.edu|date=2 July 2015 |language=en|access-date=2020-04-27}}</ref> She earned a LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School in 1965, graduating ''magna cum laude''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Alumni Directory of the Harvard Law School|publisher=Harvard Law School|year=2011|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=45}}</ref>
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