Recent Articles

Children of the Storm

December 22, 2008 23:14

A heartbreaking story that weaves many of the issues facing children and parents in the aftermath of Katrina as well as a revealing look at the larger social dynamics. When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, Erica Alphonse escaped with her kids to Houston, where fate delivered them into the hands...

Families in Crisis Need a Bailout

December 22, 2008 20:29

ABA Bar President H. Thomas Wells, Jr. and Judge Patricia A. Macías of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges penned an editorial with which we emphatically concur - Families in Crisis Need a Bailout: In the past few months, more than 30 children–mostly teenagers–were ...

Juvenile Defense Attorney suspended from Appointment List after Victory for Client

December 13, 2008 01:52

The Texas Lawyer had this particularly worrisome story earlier this week: Attorney Battles Suspension From Appointment List 1: The day after San Antonio lawyer H. Miguel Tudon successfully defended a client from criminal charges in juvenile court, he was shocked to learn the judge who presided over...

The Forgotten Children of Katrina (Children, Law and Disasters)

December 05, 2008 20:53

Shaila Dewan’s recent article in the New York Times, Many Children Lack Stability Long After Storm, focuses on the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina on children who were subsequently uprooted. The effects are more pervasive and devastating that commonly thought, with the problem all but...

Child Centered Jurisprudence and Feminist Jurisprudence: Exploring the Connections and the Tensions

November 19, 2008 16:47

The Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston recently brought together a group of leading scholars to explore the connections and the tensions between “feminist jurisprudence” and “child-centered jurisprudence.” Audio from the conference is now available and video podcast ...

Should We Recognize a Child’s Right To Refuse Vital Medical Care?

November 18, 2008 20:00

CBS News: Girl Wins Right To Refuse Vital Transplant Hannah Jones, 13, is not afraid of dying - she is afraid of spending her remaining days in a hospital bed. In a case that raises a host of medical and ethical issues, the British teenager from a small town northwest of London has won a battle...

Do We Care for Our Children? It’s Time to Incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Australian Law

October 29, 2008 15:33

Bao-Er, The Blue Mountains Legal Research Centre, Do We Care for Our Children? It’s Time to Incorporate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Australian Law, Law Society Journal, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 66-68, June 2008 The care and protection of children in Australia has now become a...

You Can’t Get Here from Here: Toward a More Child-Centered Immigration Law

October 29, 2008 15:31

David B. Thronson, William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV, You Can’t Get Here from Here: Toward a More Child-Centered Immigration Law, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 14, p. 58, 2006 This article analyzes a serious conceptual flaw in immigration law related to its treatment...

How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affects Everyone’s Kids

October 24, 2008 15:31

Justin Wolfers notes an economic analysis of a long-suspected phenomena in the Freakonomics article Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids. Scott Carrell of U.C. Davis and Mark Hoekstra of U.Pitt, published their findings in “Externalities in...

Choice of Law in International Child Support Obligations: Hague or Vague, and Does it Matter?- an American Perspective

October 23, 2008 15:26

David S. Rosettenstein, Choice of Law in International Child Support Obligations: Hague or Vague, and Does it Matter?- an American Perspective, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 122-134, 2008. This article explores, through American eyes, the choice of law...