Biography
Professor Coupet joined the Loyola law faculty in 2004. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Michigan in 1997 after completing her dissertation research on predictors of adjustment and well-being among African-American kinship caregivers. During her doctoral program, she served as a psychological consultant to the Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center, the Child Advocacy Law Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School, county juvenile court and state human service departments. While at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she continued her psychological practice, consulting with both the Consortium Children's Growth and Development Program and Children's Service Incorporated, treatment agencies serving at-risk children in Philadelphia. In law school, she served as an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and was awarded the James Wilson Fellowship. Upon graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Theodore A. McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, and then as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She went on to become a Dean's Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School, where she taught for two years in the Child Advocacy Law Clinic. Professor Coupet's research focuses on policy and practice issues in child and family welfare, particularly kinship care. Her approach aims to incorporate empirical inquiry into legal discourse with a particular emphasis on the use of social science research in the development of law and policy.

Education
A.B., Washington University, 1991
M.A. (Psychology), Michigan, 1994
Ph.D. (Psychology), Michigan, 1997
J.D., Pennsylvania, 2000

Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street
Room 1322
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 915-7134
Fax: (312) 915-720
Email: scoupet@luc.edu

Fall 2008 Teaching Schedule

Prof. Coupet's C.V.

Courses Taught

Child, Parent and State
Family Law
Family Law Practicum
International and Comparative Family Law
Science in the Law

Publications

Articles

Neither Dyad nor Triad: Children's Relationship Interests Within Kinship Caregiving Families, 41 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. 77 (2007)

The Subtlety of State Action in Privatized Child Welfare Services, 11 Chapman L. Rev. 85 (2007)

Swimming Upstream Against the Great Adoption Tide: Making the Case for 'Impermanence', 34 Capital U. L. Rev. 405 (2005)

Troxel v. Granville: Implications for At Risk Children and the Amicus Curiae Role of University-Based Interdisciplinary Centers for Children, 32 RUTGERS L.J. 857 (2001) (with Barbara Bennett Woodhouse).

What To Do With the Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: The Role of Rhetoric and Reality About Youth Offenders in the Constructive Dismantling of the Juvenile Justice System, 148 U. PA. L. REV. 1303 (2000).

Other Publications
Legal Outcomes for Abusive Head Trauma Cases: Legal, Mental Health and Family Policy Implications (in progress) (with Dale Fitch, Kathleen Faller, Elaine Pomeranz, Kimberly Aiken, Frank Vandervort).

Book review, Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child Across Time, Space and Discipline, Children and Youth Services Review, (2006) Vol 28, No. 10, 1267-1271.

A Deaf Girl in a Hearing World and All in the Family, 2 J. CLINICAL ACTIVITIES, ASSIGNMENTS & HANDOUTS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY PRACTICE 3 (2001).

Book Chapters
Grandparent Rights, in 28 ILLINOIS JURISPRUDENCE, ELDER LAW 647-688 (2006)

Works in Progress
Beyond the Dyad: Exploring Relationship Rights of Children and their Caregivers in Kinship Caregiving Families

Breaking Open the Rule of Two: Exploring the Centrality of Conjugality in the Multiple Parentage Debate

Recent Presentations
Speaker, Beyond the Dyad: Exploring Relationship Rights of Children and their Caregivers in Kinship Caregiving Families. Works-in-progress presentation at the Midwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2007.

Speaker, Applying an International Comparative Lens to Kinship Caregiving & the Impact of Trauma on Child Development, In-service training at the Mkombozi Centre for Street Children, Arusha, Tanzania, March 2007.

Invited Speaker, Beyond the Dyad: Exploring Children's Relationship Rights. Panel Presentation at the University of Michigan Child Advocacy Law Symposium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 2007.

Moderator of a panel on bioethics for the Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Annual Meeting in Tuscon, Arizona in June, 2006

Invited Speaker, Applying Facts to Family Law: Implications of Empirical Research on Kinship Caregivers for Family Law and Policy. Panel Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools, Washington, D.C., January 2006.

Speaker, Applying Therapeutic Jurisprudence to Child Welfare: Examining the Relationship between Kinship Care Policy and Kinship Caregiver Mental Health. Presentation at the 29th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Universite Rene Descartes and Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 2005.

Invited Speaker, Finding Freud in Law. Presentation at the 6th annual Psychology Graduate Career Panel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February 2005.

Speaker, Problems of Legal Recognition for Kinship Caregivers in the U.S.. Presentation at the International Society of Family Law, North American Conference, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 2001.

Invited Speaker, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Legal and Policy Issues. Facilitated presentation at the Kinship Care National Satellite Video Conference, Regional Roundtable Discussion. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 2001.

Invited Speaker, New Voices: Listening to Children. Presentation at the Family Law Symposium 2000: The American Family in the 21st Century, Family Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 2000.

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