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The Children & the Law Blog is from The Center for Children, Law & Policy at The University of Houston Law Center. The Children and the Law Blog is a service of the CCLP to disseminate news, research and materials relating to our core mission to the public and those practicing, learning or teaching in the area of children and the law. The mission of the Center for Children, Law & Policy (CCLP) is to engage in legal and interdisciplinary scholarship, advocacy and teaching to advance the interests of children through public policy.
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Recent Articles
Children of the Storm
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
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
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)
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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...
