Brent Pattison Profile

Director of the Joan and Lyle Middleton Center for Children's Rights

Professor of Law

515-271-1810
brent.pattison@drake.edu

Areas of Expertise

Education Law, Juvenile Law

Education

JD – University of Minnesota Law School, magna cum laude
BA – Wesleyan University

Professional Experience

Director of the Joan and Lyle Middleton Center for Children's Rights since 2011
Associate at Thompson & Howle
Attorney at TeamChild, Seattle, Wash.
Fellow with Team Child, Soros Justice Fellowship

Selected Publications

• Mama Tried: Shifting Thinking (and Practice) in Child Welfare Cases When a Parent is Incarcerated, 27 J. Gen. Soc. Pol’y & the Law 495 (2019
• When Children Object: Amplifying an Older Child’s Objection to Termination of Parental Rights, 49 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 689 (2016).
• Foreward: Child Welfare and Our Youngest Children: A Series on Improving Outcomes for Families with Babeis and Toddlers, Drake Law Review Discourse, Feb. 2016, at 1.
• Changing Lives: Lawyers Fighting for Children (co-author) (ABA Publishing, 2014).
• You Better Represent: Lessons about Lawyering from Adolescents (Real and Imagined), Drake Law Review Discourse, Sept. 2013, at 1.