Children and the Law

Project Updates from the 2022 ALI Annual Meeting

Last month, ALI membership met at the 2022 Annual Meeting to discuss and vote on 12 ALI project drafts. Below is a list of the projects by date presented to the ALI membership for discussion at the Meeting. Learn more about the actions taken at the Meeting here. All...

A Reexamination of the Parens Patriae Power

Below is the abstract for “A Reexamination of the Parens Patriae Power,” available for download on SSRN. Juvenile law scholars are coalescing around the idea that the originating theory of the juvenile system—the theory of the state’s parens patriae power—is a largely...