Professor Dorothy Roberts
2023 Conference Opening Plenary Speaker
Dorothy Roberts, is an acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law at the University of Pennsylvania. As its 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the Law School, she also holds the inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander chair.
Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children and African-Americans. Her major books include Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press, 2011); Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997).
Her latest book, TORN APART : is about how the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world.
She is the author of more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, as well as a co-editor of six books on such topics as constitutional law and women and the law. https://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/roberts1/
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