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Bio

Professor D. Kelly Weisberg received her undergraduate degree at Brandeis 精东影业, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in sociology and French literature. She later earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis 精东影业 and a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served on the California Law Review. Professor Weisberg joined the UC Law SF faculty in 1982 after two years on the faculty at Washington 精东影业 School of Law, St. Louis. Before that time, she participated in federally-funded studies of juvenile parole, justice prostitution, family violence, and child sexual abuse. She served as a consultant for the American Bar Association鈥檚 Women on Law Faculties Study, and the American Justice Institute鈥檚 National Juvenile Justice Assessment Center. She testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention on the relationship between runaway behavior and juvenile prostitution. She also worked as a legal intern at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, conducting legal research on the rights of children during the International Year of the Child.

At UC Law SF, Professor Weisberg served as Director of the Family Law Concentration from 2004-2007. She was the Director of the 3+3 Program between UC Law SF and UC Santa Cruz from 2015-2020. She is the author or co-author of several law review articles and books on the subjects of family law, domestic violence, children and the law, and feminist legal theory. Her most recent books are:听听Modern Family Law:听 Cases and Materials听(Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co.. 7th ed. 2020);听Domestic Violence Law听(West Academic Pub. Co. 2019); and听Domestic Violence:听 Legal and Social Reality听(Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co. 2nd ed. 2019).

Professor Weisberg has been a visiting professor at Boston 精东影业; Hebrew 精东影业; and the 精东影业 of Florida Levin College of Law, Center on Children and Families, where she held the Hurst Distinguished Visiting Chair.

Selected Scholarship

Books

• Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials听(Wolters Kluwer 7th ed. 2020).
• 听(Hornbook Series, West Academic Publishing 2019).
• 听(Aspen 2d ed. 2019).
• 听(Wolters Kluwer 6th ed. & Teacher’s Manual 2016 & Supp. 2018) (with Susan F. Appleton).
• Child, Family, State: Problems and Materials on Children and the Law听(Aspen Publishers 7th ed. 2014) (with Robert H. Mnookin).听
• 听(Emanuel Law Outlines, Aspen Publishers, 4th ed. 2014).
• Modern Family Law: Cases & Materials听(Aspen Publishers 5th ed. 2013 & Teacher’s Manual) (with Susan F. Appleton).听
• Domestic Violence: Legal and Social Reality听(Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2012 & Teacher’s Manual).听
• Family Law听(Emanuel Law Outlines, Aspen Publishers, 3d ed. 2011).听
• California Probate Code and Related Provisions, 2010鈥�2011听(Aspen Publishers 2010).听
• Florida Probate Code and Related Provisions, 2010鈥�2011听(Aspen Publishers 2010).听
• Modern Family Law听(Aspen Publishers 4th ed. 2010) (with Susan F. Appleton).听
• 听(Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2009) (with Susan Frelich Appleton).
• Child, Family, and State: Problems and Materials on Children and the Law听(Aspen Publishers 6th ed. 2009) (with Robert H. Mnookin).听
• New York Domestic Relations Law and Related Provisions听(Aspen Publishers 2009).听
• New York Estates, Powers, and Trusts Law and Related Provisions听(Aspen Publishers 2009).听
• Family Law Code: Selected States and ALI Principles, 2007鈥�2008听(Aspen Publishers 2008).听
• Florida Family Code and Related Provisions, 2008-2009听(Aspen Publishers 2008).听
• California Family Code and Related Provisions, 2007鈥�2008听(Aspen Publishers 2007).听
• Texas Family Code and Related Provisions, 2007鈥�2008听(Aspen Publishers 2007) (with J. Thomas Oldham).听
• 听(Univ. Press of Florida 2005).
• 听(Roadmap Law Course Outlines Series, Aspen Law & Business 1999).
• 听(Temple Univ. Press 1996) (editor).
• 听(Temple Univ. Press 1993) (editor).
• 听(Lexington Books 1985).
• 听(Schenkman Pub. Co. 1982) (editor; 2 vols).

Journal Articles

• Innovative Legal Remedies for Coercive Control, 14听Fam. Intimate Partner Violence Q.听65 (2021) (with Julie Saffren).听
• Lethality Assessment: An Impressive Development in Domestic Violence Law in the Past 30 Years, 30听Harv. Women’s L.J.听211 (2019).听
• Children鈥檚 Perspectives of Mothering in the Context of Domestic Violence: Recent Research Findings, 10听Fam. Intimate Partner Violence Q.听43 (Winter 2018).听
• First Tribal Court Convicts Non-Native Abuser Under VAWA, 23听Domestic Violence Rept.听17 (Dec./Jan. 2018).听
• State Firearm Surrender Laws Lower Risk of Death, 23听Domestic Violence Rept.听24 (Dec./Jan. 2018).听
• Hidden Victims and Hidden Abuse: Clients of Hair Salons, 10听Fam. Intimate Partner Violence Q.听35 (Fall 2017).听
• New Federal Regs Target Gender Bias, 21听Domestic Violence Rept.听33 (2016).听
• Property Damage in the Domestic Violence Context, 22听Domestic Violence Rept.听17 (2016).听
• Risk Assessment in Context, 21听Domestic Violence Rept.听69 (2016).听
• Doctors Miss Signs of IPV in Certain Patient Groups, 19听Domestic Violence Rept.听49 (4) (with Elana Jacobs).听
• Karen Thompson’s Role in the Movement for Marriage Equality, 25听Hastings Women’s L.J.听3 (2014).听
• Congressional Gridlock Blocked VAWA, 18听Domestic Violence Rept.听65 (2013).听
• Lindsay’s Legacy: The Tragedy That Triggered Law Reform to Prevent Teen Dating Violence, 24听Hastings Women’s L.J.听27 (2013).听听
• Teen Dating Violence: What Triggered the Law Reform Movement?, 18听Domestic Violence Rept.听35 (2013).
• Professional Women and the Professionalization of Motherhood: Marcia Clark’s Double Bind, 6听Hastings Women’s L.J.听295 (1995).听
• Children of the Night: The Adequacy of Statutory Treatment of Juvenile Prostitution, 12听Am. J. Crim. L.听1 (1984).听
• Sexual Abuse of Children: Recent Developments in the Law of Evidence, 5听Children’s Legal Rts. J.听2 (1984).听
• The “Discovery” of Sexual Abuse: Experts’ Role in Legal Policy Formulation, 18听U.C. Davis L. Rev.听1 (1984).听
• Women in Law School Teaching: Problems and Progress, 30听J. Legal Educ.听226 (1979).听
• Evolution of the Concept of the Rights of the Child in the Western World, 21听Int’l Commission Jurists Rev.听43 (Dec. 1978).听
• Barred from the Bar: Women and Legal Education in the United States 1870-1890, 28听J. Legal Educ.听485 (1977).听
• The Cinderella Children, 10听Psychol. Today听84 (1977).
• 鈥淯nder Greet Temptations Heer鈥�: Women and Divorce in Puritan Massachusetts, 2听Feminist Studies听183 (1975).
• Alternative Family Structures and the Law, 24听Fam. Coordinator听549 (1975).听
• Coupling, Parenting and the Presence of Others: Intimate Relationships in Communal Households, 24听Fam. Coordinator听433 (1975) (with Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Dennis Jaffe).听

Chapters In Books

• Collateral Damage: Discrimination in Failure-to-Protect Laws for Children鈥檚 Well-being, in听Child Rights and International Discrimination Law: Implementing Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child听(Marit Skivenes & Karl Harald S酶vig eds., Routledge 2019).
• In Harm’s Way: The Evolving Role of Domestic Violence in the Best Interests Analysis听Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Best Interests, Welfare and Well-being听249 (Elaine E. Sutherland & Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane eds., Cambridge Univ. Press 2016).听
• The Adequacy of Specific Performance as a Remedy in Surrogate Parenting Cases, in听Equity and Contemporary Legal Developments听___ (Stephen R. Goldstein ed., Hebrew 精东影业 of Jerusalem 1992).

Book Reviews

• Book Review, 47听Am. J. Orthopsychiatry听356 (1977) (reviewing听John Rothchild & Susan Berns Wolf, The Children of the Counter鈥揅ulture (1976)).

Other Publications

• Domestic Violence Report,听Civic Research Institute听(Editor 2012 -).听听

Dissertations & Theses

• Growing Up in the Presence of Others: A Study of Children and the Public Home Territory (June 1976) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis 精东影业) (on file with the Brandeis Main Library).

Education

• 精东影业 of California at Berkeley School of Law
  J.D., Law 1979

• Brandeis 精东影业
  Ph.D., Sociology 1976

• 精东影业 of California, San Francisco
  M.A., Sociology

• Brandeis 精东影业
  B.A., Sociology and French Literature 1971

Selected Scholarship

• Kelly Weisberg, Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co. 2020

• Kelly Weisberg, West Academic Publishing Co. 2019

• Kelly Weisberg, 30 Hastings Women's L.J. 211 2019

• Kelly Weisberg, Hastings Women's Law Journal 2014

• Kelly Weisberg, Hastings Women's Law Journal 2013