Professor Bruce BoyerCurt and Linda Rodin Professor of Law and Social Justice Director, Civitas ChildLaw Clinic, Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, United States Email: bboyer@luc.eduProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileProfessor Boyer is an expert in child welfare law who has litigated, taught, consulted and written extensively in the area of child abuse and neglect. He has represented clients in a wide range of proceedings including child welfare, adoption, juvenile delinquency, special education, disability hearings, and international child abduction, with his focus being primarily on issues of child maltreatment. He has designed and co-directed an intensive trial skills course for child advocates, and his publications include a book of training materials for child advocates, as well as numerous scholarly and practice-oriented articles. He has served as Chair of the American Bar Association's Steering Committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children and as a member of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, and he has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation in recognition of his "outstanding dedication to the welfare of the community and the highest principles of the legal profession." Before joining Loyola in 2001, Professor Boyer taught for 12 years at the Northwestern University Law School, where he helped in 1991 to establish Northwestern's nationally-renowned Children and Family Justice Center, a multidisciplinary project focused on Juvenile Court reform. He was an associate at the law firm of Jenner & Block before joining the Northwestern Law School faculty in 1989.ResearchPublicationsKey publications can be accessed on this linked on SSRN website Advocating for Children in Care in a Climate of Economic Recession: The Relationship Between Poverty and Child MaltreatmentNorthwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2011 (with Amy E. Halbrook) Justice, Access to the Courts, and the Right to Free Counsel for Indigent Parents: The Continuing Scourge of Lassiter V. Department of Social Services of Durham, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Vol. 36, p363, 2005 Foster Care Reentry Laws: Mending the Safety Net for Emerging Adults in the Transition to Independence Temple Law Review, Vol. 88 , 2016 The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara: Contemporary Lessons in the Child Welfare Wars, Villanova Law Review, Vol. 45, No. 245, 2000 (with Steven Lubet) ExpertiseChild Welfare, International Child Abduction, Adoption, Family Law