"Saving the Family From the Reformers" will be addressed by a family law expert from Duke University during a public lecture at UC Davis on Wednesday, Nov. 19.It will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Moot Court Room of the law school.Katherine T. Bartlett -- a professor at Duke University School of Law who teaches family law, gender and law, and contracts -- will give the 16th Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Memorial Lecture on the Family. 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. In addition, Bartlett is a 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.