Stacey E. Platt
Clinical Professor
Biography
Stacey Platt is a clinical professor of law and the associate director of the ChildLaw Clinic at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where her focus is the training of law students to represent children in legal proceedings.
Professor Platt has dedicated her legal career to representing low-income children and families. At the ChildLaw Clinic, Professor Platt and her students represent children involved in child protection cases and high conflict custody disputes. In addition to clinical supervision, Professor Platt co-teaches the weekly clinic seminar, and serves as a faculty lecturer and trainer in several other law school courses involving child and family law, as well as trial practice.
Before joining Loyola, Professor Platt was a staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, where her areas of focus were domestic violence and children's issues. She has extensive experience representing parents, caretakers and children in abuse and neglect proceedings in the juvenile court and in custody and visitation proceedings in the domestic relations court, including work on significant appeals. She has also worked on several class action lawsuits pursuing reform of Illinois' child welfare and education systems.
Professor Platt has co-authored several articles on topics including failed adoption, older youth aging out of foster care, and the educational rights of homeless children. She co-wrote and appeared in a video module of the American Bar Association's National Training Program on the Representation of Children in High Conflict Custody Disputes. Professor Platt serves on the editorial board of Family Court Review, a publication of Hofstra University and the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC).
Professor Platt has served as a teacher for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy in numerous litigation training programs for children's advocates and domestic violence advocates.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Professor Platt was a caseworker in the New York City child welfare system. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology and history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She received her law degree, cum laude, from New York University School of Law.
Education
B.A., Wisconsin, 1984
J.D., cum laude, New York University, 1991
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Loyola University Chicago
School of Law
25 E. Pearson Street
Room 1118
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 915-7931
Fax: (312) 915-6485
Email: splatt@luc.edu
Fall 2009 Teaching Schedule |
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Child and Family Law Clinic
Comparative Law Seminar: Legal Systems in the Americas
Publications
Articles
The Question of Best Interest of the Child in Failed Adoptions: A Case Study, Adoption Quarterly, Vol. 4 (4) 2001 (with Weinberg)
Termination of Older Youth from Foster Care: A Protocol for Illinois, Public Interest Law Reporter (Spring 2000) (with Heybach)
Enforcing the Education Rights of Homeless Children and Youth: Focus on Chicago, 32 Clearinghouse Rev. 21 (1998) (with Heybach)
Recent Presentations
Lecturer and Facilitator, Training program for Domestic Violence Advocates, National Civil Law Custody Institute, Tampa, FL, January, 2007.
Panelist, Child Advocacy discussion, NYU School of Law, December 2006.
Faculty member for the NITA Family Law Trial Practice Program at Hofstra University School of Law, June 2006.
Professional Service
Steering Committee, National Civil Law Custody Institute, 2007
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