Emily Buss

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Biography

Emily Buss is an expert on how the law affects children. Before teaching, she practiced law at a firm that specialized in litigation and other types of legal advocacy on behalf of children.

Her research and scholarship draws on the psychological literature of child development and its relation to the legal problems affecting children. She teaches civil procedure, evidence and courses addressing the law governing children and their relationships with their parents.

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