MARRIAGE, WELFARE, AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILDREN
WILL BE AMONG TOPICS AT CONFERENCE
ON "NEW DIRECTIONS IN FAMILY LAW"

	CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 22 -- A symposium on "New
Directions in Family Law" will bring together some of the country's
leading experts to consider a variety of major family-related legal
issues at the University of Virginia School of Law March 3-4.
	The conference, sponsored by the John M. Olin Program in Law
and Economics and the Virginia Law Review, is free and open to the
public.
	Family law professors from throughout the country will offer
a full range of current legal opinion on such topics as changing
images of marriage, public and private responsibility for children,
proposed welfare reforms, surrogacy contracts and parent-child
relationships.
	The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Friday, March 3, and from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 4, in
Room 101 at the law school.
	U.Va. law professor Walter J. Wadlington, one the nation's
foremost authorities on family law and children in the legal system,
will offer the conference's introductory remarks.
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February 21, 1995
	For additional information contact Joyce Holt at the U.Va.
School of Law at (804) 924-4787.  Copies of papers to be presented
will be available in advance in Room 351.