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Race Matters in Adoption, Family Law Quarterly (2008)

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[Issue Co-editor] Co-Parenting During and After Divorce: A Handbook for Parents, Family Law Advocate (2007)

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Children in Adoptive Families: Overview and Update (with Steven L. Nickman M.D., Alan A. Rosenfeld M.D., Paul Fine M.D., James C. MacIntyre M.D., Daniel J. Pilowsky M.D., Andre Derdeyn M.D., Mayu Bonoan Gonzales M.D., and Sally A. Sveda M.D.), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2005)

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[Issue Co-editor] Are You Ready? Meeting the Needs of Twenty-first Century Clients: How Demographic Changes Will Alter Your Practice, Family Advocate (2004)

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A Closed Mind is a Wonderful Thing to Lose, Cardozo Women's Law Journal (2003)

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[Issue Co-editor] AD Options: A Client Handbook, Family Advocate (2002)

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Adoption Laws and Practices in 2000: Serving Whose Interests?, Family Law Quarterly (1999)

A Critical Assessment of the Uniform Adoption Act: In Whose Best Interests?, Decree (1998)

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Who Should Adopt Our Children? (with Randall Kennedy), Essence (1998)

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Transracial Adoption (TRA): Old Prejudices and Discrimination Float Under a New Halo, Boston University Public Interest Law Journal (1997)

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Redefining the Transracial Adoption Controversy, Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (1995)

The Transracial Adoption Controversy, Boston College Law School Magazine (1995)

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Review of Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting by Elizabeth Bartholet, Golden Gate University Law Review (1994)

[Issue Editor] Elder Law: Special Issue for Lawyers and Their Clients Who Weren't Born Yesterday, Family Advocate (1993)

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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 (1992)

[Issue Co-editor] Addiction: The New American Slavery: Its Effect on Family Law, Family Advocate (1991)

Review of Juvenile Justice in Double Jeopardy: The Distanced Community and Vengeful Retribution, by Justine Wise Polier, Child Welfare (1990)

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Who Speaketh for the Child?, New England Law Review (1988)

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Adoption Practice, Issues and Laws 1958-1983, Family Law Quarterly (1983)

Adoption: New Rules for the Million Dollar Matching Game, Family Advocate (1980)

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Development of a Model Act to Free Children for Permanent Placement: A Case Study in Law and Social Planning, Family Law Quarterly (1979)

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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 (1979)

Review of Social Work and the Law by Donald Brieland and John Lemmon, Social Work (1978)

Divorce: Critical Issues for Legal and Mental Health Professionals, Urban and Social Change Review (1977)

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Child Neglect Laws in America (with Sanford N. Katz and Melba McGrath), Family Law Quarterly (1975)

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Adoption Laws and Practices: Serving Whose Interests?, Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families (2010)

Parenthood in the United States, Cross Currents: Family Law and Policy in the United States and England (2000)

Reflections, Daughters of Kings: Growing Up as a Jewish Woman in America (1997)

Appendix C: The Role of Law Schools (with Robert V. Ward Jr.), In Equal Justice: Eliminating the Barriers. Final Report of Supreme Judicial Court Commission to Study Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Court (1994)

Legal Rights and Obligations: An Uneven Evolution, Young Unwed Fathers (1993)

Child Abuse, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (1983)

Child Welfare, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (1983)

Chronicling the Careers of African American Graduates of Boston College Law School: Classes 1969-1980 (2012)

Since its founding in 1985, has served as Treasurer of the Black Alumni Network and was re-elected at the Black Alumni Network Annual Meeting on February 8, 2009 at the Law School (2009)

"Remarks" at BC Lynch School of Education Welcome Celebration for Dr. Anderson J. Franklin, Honorable David S. Nelson Chair, Boston College (2007)

The Challenges of Transracial Adoption, 2nd Brown Bag Luncheon of the Law School's Children's Rights Group in honor of National Adoption Awareness Month (2005)

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A Dream Deferred, Boston College Law School Lectures and Presentations (2005)

The Black Law Student Association's March 28, 2009 Professor Ruth-Arlene W. Howe Annual Heritage Dinner honoring the Honorable Benjamin Jones '69 and Ruby Roy Wharton, Esq. '69, also celebrated the career and retirement of Professor Howe. (2009)

The BC Law Class of 2008 in dedicating their Sui Juris yearbook to Professor Howe stated: "Upon her retirement in 2008, Professor Howe leaves behind a lasting legacy that will inspire BC Law students for years to come." (2008)

Recognized for being a Trail Blazer at the Tenth Annual Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, at the Southern New England School of Law, North Dartmouth, MA (2007)

The Boston Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. (the oldest African American Sorority founded in 1908 at Howard University) presented two Ruth-Arlene W. Howe Black Family Awards to Soror Jacqueline Jones, Multicultural Outreach Director, Massasoit Community College and Dr. Jackie Jenkins-Scott, President, Wheelock College (2006)

As a founding faculty adviser of the Boston College Third World Law Journal, Howe was honored at the journal's twenty-fifth anniversary dinner and symposium, "Black Children and Their Families in the Twenty-first Century: Surviving the American Nightmare or Living a Dream Deferred?" (2005)