D. Kelly Weisberg, Professor of Law

Professor D. Kelly Weisberg received her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in sociology and French literature.  She later earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University and J.D. degree from Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, where she served on the California Law Review.  She joined the Hastings faculty in 1982 after two years on the faculty at Washington University 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's Women on Law Faculties Study, and the American Justice Institute's 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 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 Hastings, she served as Director of the Family Law Concentration from 2004-2007.  She is the author of several law review articles and books, including Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (co-authored with Susan F. Appleton) (Aspen Publishers, 4th ed., 2010); Adoption and Assisted Reproduction: Families Under Construction (co-authored with Susan F. Appleton) (Aspen Publishers, 2009); Child, Family, State: Cases and Materials on Children and the Law (co-authored with Robert H. Mnookin) (Aspen Publishers, 6th ed., 2009); The Birth of Surrogacy in Israel (University Press of Florida, 2005); and the Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives (Temple University Press, 1996).

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

Courses Taught: Family Law, Children and the Law, Juvenile Justice, Domestic Violence, and Wills and Trusts