Professor Howe retired from active teaching duties in 2008. She has written extensively regarding family law, foster care, adoption and social services, including coauthoring Child Neglect Laws in America. She taught courses in family and elder law, as well as Legal Interviewing and Counseling. Professor Howe served as advisor to the Black Law Student Association and Third World Law Journal.

EDUCATION

A.B., Wellesley College; M.S.W., Simmons College; J.D., Boston College.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Presentations: "The Challenges of Transracial Adoption," at 2nd Brown Bag Luncheon of the law school's Children's Rights Group in honor of National Adoption Awareness Month, November 16, 2005.

"A Dream Deferred," as keynote speaker at the Boston College Black Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Association’s annual MLK Unity Breakfast in January 2005.

Activities: Invited attendee of a conference in Houston on the Campus of Rice University: "Embracing the Opportunities for Increasing Diversity Into the Legal Profession: Collaborating to Expand the Pipeline (Let's Get Real)" hosted by the ABA Presidential Advisory Council on Diversity in the Legal Profession. Primary Co-Sponsor was the Law School Admission Council. On Friday and Saturday morning Maurice Hope-Thompson, News Director for radio station WKTSU, aired taped interviews with Prof. Howe. Hope-Thompson (BC Law '80 )was founding Editor-in-Chief of the BC Third World Law Journal.

Organized and hosted the annual reception of the Black Alumni Network (BAN) for 3L and prospective students at BC Law in April 2005. Special guest at a reception hosted by BAN Mid-Atlantic Region co-director Kenneth Whitted ’89 in Silver Spring, Maryland, in April 2005.

Appointments: Re-elected Treasurer at the Black Alumni Network Annual Meeting on October 15 , 2005 at the law offices of Walter Prince, Prince, Lobel Glovsky & Tye LLP.

Re-appointed to the editorial board of the Family Advocate, a practical journal of the American Bar Association's family law section, in February.

Works in Progress: “BC Law American Students and Alumni: A History.”

Other: As a founder of the Boston College Third World Law Journal, Howe was honored at the journal’s twenty-fifth anniversary celebration dinner and symposium, "Black Children and Their Families in the Twenty-first Century: Surviving the American Nightmare or Living a Dream Deferred," in March 2005.

• With Carl Gilmore McHenry II, issue co-editors. "Co-Parenting During and After Divorce: A Handbook for Parents." Family Law Advocate 30: no.1 (Summer 2007)
• With Steven L. Nickman et al. "Children in Adoptive Families: Overview and Update." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 44: no.10 (October 2005): 987-995.
• Issue Co-editor. “Are You Ready? Meeting the Needs of Twenty-first Century Clients: How Demographic Changes Will Alter Your Practice.” Family Advocate 27, no. 2 (Fall 2004).
• "A Closed Mind is a Wonderful Thing to Lose." Preface to Cardozo Women's Law Journal 9: no.2 (2003) (To Do Feminist Legal Theory: Symposium 2003): 193.
• With Ann M. Haralambie, issue co-editor. "ADR Options: A Client Handbook." Family Advocate 24: no.4 (Spring 2002)
• "Parenthood in the United States." In Cross Currents : Family Law and Policy in the United States and England, edited by Sanford N. Katz, John Eekelaar, and Mavis Maclean, 187-209. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
• "Adoption Laws and Practices in 2000: Serving Whose Interests?" Family Law Quarterly 33 (Fall 1999): 677-689.
• "A Critical Assessment of the Uniform Adoption Act: In Whose Best Interests?" Decree 15, no.2 (Summer 1998): 1, 5.
• With Randall Kennedy. "Who Should Adopt Our Children?" Essence 28 (January 1998): 64, 66, 130.
• "Reflections." In Daughters of Kings: Growing Up as a Jewish Woman in America, edited by Leslie Brody, 169-182. London: Faber & Faber, 1997.
• "Transracial Adoption (TRA): Old Prejudices and Discrimination Float Under a New Halo." Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 6 (Winter 1997): 409-472.
• "The Transracial Adoption Controversy." Boston College Law School Magazine 3 (Spring 1995): 23-27.
• "Redefining the Transracial Adoption Controversy." Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 2 (Spring 1995): 131-164.
• With Robert V. Ward, Jr. "Appendix C: The Role of Law Schools." In Equal Justice: Eliminating the Barriers. Final Report of Supreme Judicial Court Commission to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts, 189-203. Boston, MA: Supreme Judicial Court, September 1994.
• Review of Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting, by Elizabeth Bartholet. Massachusetts Family Law Journal 11 (September 1993): 37-40. [Also appears in Golden Gate University Law Review 24 (Spring 1994): 299-305.]
• Issue Editor: Family Advocate 16 (Summer 1993). Issue Title: Elder Law: Special Issue For Lawyers and Their Clients Who Weren't Born Yesterday.
• "Legal Rights and Obligations: An Uneven Evolution." In Young Unwed Fathers, edited by Robert I. Lerman and Theodora J. Ooms, 141-169. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1993.
• "A Wake-Up Call for American Society or 'Have the Chickens Just Come Home to Roost?' - Essay Review of Charles Patrick Ewing's When Children Kill: The Dynamics of Juvenile Homicide," Nova Law Review 16 (Winter 1992): 847-907.
• Issue Editor. Family Advocate 14 (Summer 1991). Issue title: Addiction: The New American Slavery: Its Effect on Family Law.
• Review of Juvenile Justice in Double Jeopardy: The Distanced Community and Vengeful Retribution, by Justine Wise Polier. Child Welfare 69 (September-October 1990): 471-473.
• "Who Speaketh for the Child?" New England Law Review 23 (Autumn 1988): 421-435.
• "Adoption Practice, Issues and Laws 1958-1983." Family Law Quarterly 17 (Summer 1983): 173-197.
• "Child Abuse," and "Child Welfare." Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, vol. 6, 121-22; vol. 6, 141-142. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1983.
• "Adoption: New Rules for the Million Dollar Matching Game." Family Advocate 3, no. 2 (Fall 1980): 20-25, 37.
• Review of Child Abuse and Neglect: Legislation, Reporting, and Prevention by Joseph J. Costa and Gordon K. Nelson and Child Maltreatment in the United States: A Challenge to Social Institutions by Saad J. Nagi. Contemporary Sociology 8 (January 1979): 97-98.
• "Development of a Model Act to Free Children for Permanent Placement: A Case Study in Law and Social Planning." Family Law Quarterly 13 (Fall 1979): 257-344.
• Review of Social Work and the Law by Donald Brieland and John Lemmon. Social Work 23 (May 1978): 260-261.
• "Divorce: Critical Issues for Legal and Mental Health Professionals." Urban and Social Change Review 10 (Winter 1977), 15-21.
• With Sanford N. Katz and Melba McGrath. "Child Neglect Laws in America." Family Law Quarterly 9 (Spring 1975): 1-372. [Also appears as Child Neglect Laws in America by Howe, Katz, and McGrath. Chicago: ABA Section of Family Law, 1976.]