Children and the Law Posts
Restatement of Children and the Law Now Available
This first ever Restatement on the law governing children covers issues such as parental rights and state intervention in cases of abuse and neglect; the rights of students and the limits of state authority in public schools; the rights and special protections of youth in both the juvenile and criminal justice systems, from police contact to dispositions and sentencing; and children as legal persons, covering free-speech rights and the authority of minors to consent to certain medical decisions, among other things.
State Courts Look to Restatement Drafts
State courts continue to look not only to the Institute’s established work, but also to drafts of its ongoing projects.
Juveniles in the Criminal Justice System: Transfer to Criminal Court
The following black letter is excerpted from Tentative Draft No. 6, which contains § 13.10-13, Transfer to Criminal Court.
Parents in Fact
This Essay examines the Restatement of Law, Children and the Law’s full-throated embrace of a de facto parent doctrine in the context of family law’s evolving treatment of functional parents.
The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law Is Approved
The American Law Institute’s membership voted to approve Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law, the first Restatement to comprehensively examine the legal regulation of children.
Children at Work, Parental Rights– and Rhetoric
This essay focuses on the use of “parental rights” as a rationale that is being used in a number of states to justify the reduction of children’s labor protections.
Adolescents in the Justice System: A Progress Report on the Restatement of Children and the Law
This paper responds to comments from experts on the current draft of the Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law, from the perspectives of adolescent development and racial equity.
In Loco Parentis and the Fourth Amendment Rights of Minors in Public Schools
I contend, here, that to achieve and maintain proper discipline as well as the safety of all schoolchildren, a probable cause standard to Fourth Amendment violations is sufficiently lacking in constitutional tethering.
In Loco Reipublicae
This Article offers a new framework for children in constitutional law, one that elevates children’s rights as developing citizens by recognizing parental duties to respect those citizenship rights.
Tribes, States, and Sovereigns’ Interest in Children
This Article takes opposition to ICWA as an opportunity to scrutinize the nature and permissible scope of political communities’ interests in children. Acknowledging that a community’s and a child’s interests may at times conflict, in turn, makes clear the need to develop tools to identify and manage such conflicts when they occur.