Susan Vivian Mangold is a Professor of Law at SUNY Buffalo Law
School. She has developed courses entitled Introduction to Family
Violence, Child Advocacy and the Law, Child Welfare Law, State as
Custodian and Evidence and the Child Victim. Mangold has published
in the field of child welfare law and has presented to audiences of
lawyers, social workers, physicians and others engaged in the
protection of children. She was an organizer of the Urban Girls:
Entering a New Millennium Conference in April 2000 which gathered
over 800 teens, advocates and scholars to address the unique issues
of girls in urban settings. She is Director of the Baldy Center's
Program on Children, Families, and Society.
Mangold is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
At the law school, she was Executive Director of Harvard Legal Aid.
She was a staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia
for five years before entering academics. At the Juvenile Law
Center, she represented children in abuse and neglect cases and
worked on impact litigation in the child welfare, juvenile justice
and mental health areas.
