A family law expert from Duke University will give a public lecture titled "Saving the Family From the Reformers" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Moot Court Room of the University of California, Davis, law school. Katherine T. Bartlett, a professor at Duke University School of Law, will give the 16th Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Memorial Lecture on the Family. The late Professor Bodenheimer taught law at UC Davis, specializing in family and community property law. Bartlett teaches family law, gender and law and contracts at Duke. She has written and lectured extensively on topics in family law, including child custody, joint custody, surrogate parenting and the role of fault in divorce law. Bartlett is also an expert in the law as it relates to women. She is the author of two leading law casebooks dealing with family law and gender and the law and currently serves as a reporter for the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, where she is responsible for the provision relating to child custody. Bartlett earned her degrees at Wheaton College, Harvard University and UC Berkeley. The lecture is free and open to the public. For those in the legal profession, the lecture is approved for one hour of continuing legal education credit.