Louise Ellen Teitz | July 28, 2017 | Children and the Law, Conflict of Laws, U.S. Foreign Relations Law
INTRODUCTION Treating internal U.S. conflicts and international conflicts law the same, without distinguishing between them, has always puzzled non-U.S. lawyers and scholars. Europeans often do not understand how we can treat transnational choice of law decisions as...
Elizabeth S. Scott | July 7, 2017 | Children and the Law
A brief historical account may be helpful in understanding the uncertainty and the reasons why a Restatement of Children and the Law would be particularly useful in clarifying legal doctrine and in supporting emerging reform trends. The traditional legal model of...
Barry C. Feld | July 5, 2017 | Children and the Law, Policing
Introduction My professional career has spanned three of the four eras of juvenile justice in the United States: the Due Process Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s; the Get Tough Era of the 1980s and 1990s; and the more recent academic and judicial recognition that...
Maxine Eichner | June 30, 2017 | Children and the Law
Doctors and hospitals have begun to level a new charge — “medical child abuse” (MCA) — against parents who, they say, get unnecessary medical treatment for their kids. The fact that this treatment has been ordered by other doctors does not protect parents from these...
Kate Fort | June 16, 2017 | American Indian Law
Opinion here: Gila River Indian Community v. Dept. of Child Safety, Sarah H., Jeremy H., A.D. This case was originally the In re A.D. case, the same A.D. who was the Goldwater Institute’s named plaintiff in Carter (A.D.) v. Washburn (now on appeal to the 9th Circuit)....
