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Report on the Panel on “The Politics of Marriage and Family”

October 6th, 2009 1 comment

Report on the Panel on “the Politics of Marriage and Family” at the 2009 National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families at Hampton University.

By Lynn D. Wardle, Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University.wardle

I was honored to participate in the recent National Summit on Marriage, Parenting and Families at Hampton University, September 29-30, 2009, co-sponsored by the National Center on African American Marriages and Parenting.  My panel on Wednesday addressed “The Politics of Marriage and Family” and included in addition to myself former Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears of the Georgia Supreme Court, former Judge Arthur Burnett of the District of Columbia Superior Court, two Virginia elected officials (a state Senator and a city councilman), and Theodore M. Shaw, former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund was moderator.   Read more…