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International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski
International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski
The Year in Review
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International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski
International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski
The Year in Review
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International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski
International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski
The Year in Review
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Family Law, Joanna L. Grossman, Christine P. Leatherberry
Family Law, Joanna L. Grossman, Christine P. Leatherberry
SMU Annual Texas Survey
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Integrated Nonmarital Property Rights, E. Gary Spitko
Integrated Nonmarital Property Rights, E. Gary Spitko
SMU Law Review
Nonmarital cohabitation has become a mainstream family structure in the United States. Yet despite the increasing prevalence of nonmarital cohabitants, American family property law generally fails to support nonmarital couples. This inequality under the law disproportionately disadvantages persons of color, those with relatively less education, and couples with relatively fewer economic resources. This Article considers the post-Obergefell need for law reform to better support nonmarital families, examines the principles that should ground nonmarital property rights reform, and proposes a novel approach to nonmarital property rights that integrates the law of dissolution with the law of succession, unifies the law …
A Critical Race Theory Approach To Children’S Rights, Jessica Dixon Weaver
A Critical Race Theory Approach To Children’S Rights, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This Article uses critical race theory to analyze the impact of corporal punishment and physical child abuse on African American children’s rights in the United States. From an international perspective, the banning of corporal punishment is consistent with multidisciplinary research about the negative effects of physical discipline on children. However, throughout United States history, African American parenting oftentimes utilizes physical discipline to teach children strict compliance with authority in order to prevent deadly violence from being inflicted upon them by white people. Using critical race theory concepts, this Article illustrates how state endorsement of corporal punishment within the family and …