Tonja Jacobi and Riley Clafton | October 14, 2022 | Children and the Law
Below is the abstract for “The Law of Disposable Children: Searches in Schools,” available for download on SSRN. Schoolchildren are being strip-searched based on little or no reasonable suspicion, and schoolchildren are being targeted for searches based on their race,...
Lauren van Schilfgaarde and Brett Lee Shelton | September 19, 2022 | American Indian Law, Children and the Law
Below is the abstract for “Using Peacemaking Circles to Indigenize Tribal Child Welfare,” available for download on SSRN. Historical child welfare policies explicitly aimed to exterminate Indigenous culture and disrupt tribal cohesion. The remnants of these policies...
S. Ernie Walton | September 16, 2022 | Children and the Law
Below is the abstract for “In Loco Parentis, the First Amendment, and Parental Rights—Can they Coexist in Public Schools?,” available for download on SSRN. Public education across the United States is in disarray. Students are suffering as a result. Most of the...
Jeffrey A. Parness | August 25, 2022 | Children and the Law
Below is the abstract for “Expanding State Parent Registry Laws,” available for download on SSRN. As with state recognized voluntary acknowledgements of parentage (VAPs) and state recognized assisted reproduction pacts (SRARPs) on childcare parentage for future or...
Clare Huntington and Elizabeth S. Scott | June 14, 2022 | Children and the Law
Below is the abstract for “The Enduring Importance of Parental Rights,” available for download on SSRN. In this symposium contribution for The Law of Parents and Parenting, we argue that parental rights are—and should remain—the backbone of family law. State deference...
Jeffrey A. Parness | June 7, 2022 | Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws
Below is the abstract for “Choosing Parentage Laws in Multistate Conduct Cases,” available for download on SSRN. The (r)evolution in U.S. state parentage laws in the last half century presents significant, and to date generally unrecognized, challenges when parentage...
