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...
Pauline Toboulidis | June 1, 2022 | Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws, Consumer Contracts, Copyright, Inside The ALI, Policing, Property, Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct, Torts: Miscellaneous Provisions, Torts: Remedies, Uniform Commercial Code
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...
