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Full-Text Articles in Law
Summary Report On Hearing On Child Custody, Senate Select Committee On Women In The Workforce
Summary Report On Hearing On Child Custody, Senate Select Committee On Women In The Workforce
California Senate
No abstract provided.
State-Interest Analysis And The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider
State-Interest Analysis And The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider
Articles
I want to develop some themes I advanced in my article entitled State-Interest Analysis in Fourteenth Amendment "Privacy" Law: An Essay on the Constitutionalization of Social issues. In that article I noted that while courts and commentators have lavished effort on the fundamental-rights side of privacy law, they have scanted the state-interest side, thereby producing crucial weaknesses in that law. I felt that state~interest discussions in privacy cases often seemed to me unsatisfying. This is an attempt to see why. A major difficulty is that states tend to advance and courts tend to accept quite narrow specifications of a statute's …
Spruce Run News (August 1992), Spruce Run Staff
Spruce Run News (August 1992), Spruce Run Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Bioethics And The Family: The Cautionary View From Family Law, Carl E. Schneider
Bioethics And The Family: The Cautionary View From Family Law, Carl E. Schneider
Articles
For many years, the field of bioethics has been specially concerned with how the authority to make medical decisions should be allocated between doctor and patient. Today the patient's power-indeed, the patient's right-is widely acknowledged, at least in principle. But this development can hardly be the last word in our thinking about how medical decisions should be made. For one thing, sometimes patients cannot speak for themselves. For another, patients· make medical decisions in contexts that significantly include more participants than just the patient and doctor. Now, as this conference demonstrates, bioethics is beginning to ask what role the patient's …
Domestic Violence Law Poses Challenges For The Courts, Jane C. Murphy, Judith Wolfer
Domestic Violence Law Poses Challenges For The Courts, Jane C. Murphy, Judith Wolfer
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Meaningful Representation Of Children: An Analysis Of The State Bar Association Law Guardian Legislative Proposal, Merril Sobie
The Meaningful Representation Of Children: An Analysis Of The State Bar Association Law Guardian Legislative Proposal, Merril Sobie
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article will outline the background and history of the law guardian system, summarize the Task Force proposal and analyze the proposal's effects. The intent is to present a synopsis of the issues addressed by the proposal, which has been forwarded to the Legislature for consideration during the 1992 session.
The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider
The Channelling Function In Family Law, Carl E. Schneider
Articles
On an occasion such as this, we are called to step back from our daily work to seek what Justice Holmes called a "liberal view" of our subject. Today, I propose to do so by exploring a function of family law that I believe is basic, that underlies much of family law, that resonates with the deepest purposes of culture but that is rarely addressed expressly-namely, what I call the "channelling function." As I will soon explain at length, in the channelling function the law recruits, builds, shapes, sustains; and promotes social institutions. My exploration of this topic will have …
A Family Court For Maryland: The Time Has Come, Barbara A. Babb
A Family Court For Maryland: The Time Has Come, Barbara A. Babb
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Before Guardianship: Abuse Of Patient Rights Behind Closed Doors, Peter J. Strauss
Before Guardianship: Abuse Of Patient Rights Behind Closed Doors, Peter J. Strauss
Articles & Chapters
No abstract provided.
The Tragedy Of The Interstate Child: A Critical Reexamination Of The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act And The Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act, Anne B. Goldstein
The Tragedy Of The Interstate Child: A Critical Reexamination Of The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act And The Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act, Anne B. Goldstein
Faculty Scholarship
This Article's thesis is that the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA) and the Parental Kidnaping Prevention Act (PKPA) have not eliminated jurisdictional competition because a federal system such as ours cannot achieve both of the Acts' two main instrumental goals - preventing or punishing "child snatching" and promoting well-informed decisions. Our system commits custody decisions to sovereign states, which make and modify the decisions according to indeterminate precepts. Such a system will inevitably create some version of the interstate child; so long as these features of our system persist, legislation cannot solve the problem. Therefore, although this Article proposes …
The Privatization Of Family Law, Jana B. Singer
The Privatization Of Family Law, Jana B. Singer
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Goodwill And The Ideal Of Equality: Marital Property At The Crossroads, 31 U. Louisville J. Fam. L. 1 (1992), Michael G. Heyman
Goodwill And The Ideal Of Equality: Marital Property At The Crossroads, 31 U. Louisville J. Fam. L. 1 (1992), Michael G. Heyman
UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Decontextualization Of Domestic Violence, Lisa G. Lerman
The Decontextualization Of Domestic Violence, Lisa G. Lerman
Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
Lifting The Genealogical Veil: A Blueprint For Legislative Reform Of The Disclosure Of Health-Related Information In Adoption, Marianne Blair
Lifting The Genealogical Veil: A Blueprint For Legislative Reform Of The Disclosure Of Health-Related Information In Adoption, Marianne Blair
Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Gender And Specialization In The Practice Of Divorce Law, Richard J. Maiman, Lynn Mather, Craig A. Mcewen
Gender And Specialization In The Practice Of Divorce Law, Richard J. Maiman, Lynn Mather, Craig A. Mcewen
Journal Articles
No abstract provided.
Mandatory Planning For Divorce, Jeffrey E. Stake
Mandatory Planning For Divorce, Jeffrey E. Stake
Articles by Maurer Faculty
No abstract provided.
Pluralism, Paternal Preference, And Child Custody, Elizabeth S. Scott
Pluralism, Paternal Preference, And Child Custody, Elizabeth S. Scott
Faculty Scholarship
Modern child custody law faces an important challenge in responding to pluralistic and evolving gender and parenting roles. Professor Scott finds rules favoring maternal custody, joint custody, and the best interests of the child wanting; she argues that the optimal response to the current pluralism in family structure is a rule that seeks to replicate past parental roles. This "approximation" standard promotes continuity and stability for children. It encourages cooperative rather than conflictual resolution of custody, thereby ameliorating the destructive effects of bargaining at divorce. It also recognizes and reinforces role change in individual families, encouraging both parents to invest …
Louisiana Family Law, Christopher L. Blakesley
Child Protection Legal Process: Comparing The United States And Great Britain, Donald N. Duquette
Child Protection Legal Process: Comparing The United States And Great Britain, Donald N. Duquette
Articles
The legal response to child maltreatment-or the risk of child maltreatment-varies greatly from society to society and has been little studied, in part because of the idiosyncrasies of community values, social organization, history and legal traditions.2 Cross-country comparison of child abuse and neglect is especially difficult because the ambiguity of social standards and the imprecision of terms used makes it difficult to define the specific behavior one is studying. Even though child maltreatment is widely prohibited, the definition of what actually constitutes child abuse and neglect is not clear within a particular country, much less uniform from one society to …
Introduction: The Bounds Of Advocacy, Robert H. Aronson
Introduction: The Bounds Of Advocacy, Robert H. Aronson
Articles
I was asked, as Reporter for the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers' Bounds of Advocacy, to provide an Introduction to the substantive issues discussed by members of the Committee in succeeding articles. This article will therefore "set the stage" by indicating the need for the Bounds of Advocacy, the charge to the Committee, the process by which the Standards and Comments were drafted, re-drafted, and then re-drafted again, and the appropriate scope, purpose and use of the Standards and Comments.
Getting The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth: The Limits Of Liability For Wrongful Adoption, Marianne Blair
Getting The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth: The Limits Of Liability For Wrongful Adoption, Marianne Blair
Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Identifying The Best Interests Of The Child In Protection Proceedings: Nine Guidelines For The Child Advocate., Donald N. Duquette
Identifying The Best Interests Of The Child In Protection Proceedings: Nine Guidelines For The Child Advocate., Donald N. Duquette
Articles
Increasingly, judges appoint court appointed special advocates (CASAs) to represent children in child abuse and neglect proceedings. Like lawyers, CASAs are charged with looking out for the "best interests" of the child. Unfortunately, although the phrase "best interests" sounds noble, it provides little practical guidance for the child advocate.
Marital Property Rights In Transition, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Marital Property Rights In Transition, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Articles
The subject of "marital property rights" is very timely because those rights are in a state of transition. The term "marital property rights" covers a vast multitude of rights or interests conferred by law on persons who occupy the status of spouse. This lecture is divided into four discrete, yet related segments. The first segment addresses how the law allocates original ownership between spouses in a marriage. The second segment turns to the intestate share of the surviving spouse. This is not a topic that high-powered estate planners get involved in very much because intestate estates are usually fairly small. …
Spousal Rights In Our Multiple-Marriage Society: The Revised Uniform Probate Code, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Spousal Rights In Our Multiple-Marriage Society: The Revised Uniform Probate Code, Lawrence W. Waggoner
Articles
The transformation of the American family constitutes one of the great phenomenons of the past two decades. The traditional Leave It to Beaver family no longer prevails in American society. To be sure, families consisting of the wage-earning husband, the homemaking and child-rearing wife, and their two joint children still exist. But divorce rates are astonishingly high and remarriage abounds. In fact, there is an increasing prevalence in the population of marriages that are more likely to end in divorce than others-marriages in which one or both partners were divorced before and marriages of couples who cohabited prior to marriage.
Tales Of Two Cities: Aids And The Legal Recognition Of Domestic Partnerships In San Francisco And New York, David L. Chambers
Tales Of Two Cities: Aids And The Legal Recognition Of Domestic Partnerships In San Francisco And New York, David L. Chambers
Articles
Here are two stories. They are of the quite different ways that domestic partnerships of lesbian and gay couples have come to be recognized, for some purposes, in San Francisco and New York City. I tell the stories for their own sake, but with a particular focus on the role that AIDS played in the political process in each city.
The "Gag Rule" Revisited: Physicians As Abortion Gatekeepers, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
The "Gag Rule" Revisited: Physicians As Abortion Gatekeepers, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
To the surprise of many and the dismay of some, the U.S. Supreme Court took it upon itself last term to proclaim a national compromise on the question of abortion. The Court's announced truce, an elaboration on Justice O'Connor's "undue burden" idea, is pragmatic in design but unlikely to prove stable in practice. The three justices who spoke for the Court disparaged Roe with reluctant praise, then upheld its outer shell on the ground that social expectations and the need to sustain the appearance of the rule of law made it impolitic to do otherwise. This awkward doctrinal invention seems …
Judicial Review Of Academic Student Evaluations: A Comment On Susan 'M' V. New York Law School From Those Who Litigated It, Harold Weinberger, Andrew Schepard
Judicial Review Of Academic Student Evaluations: A Comment On Susan 'M' V. New York Law School From Those Who Litigated It, Harold Weinberger, Andrew Schepard
Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship
Susan "M" v. New York Law School is the most recent decision of a highest court of a state that vindicates the principle of judicial noninterference in academic evaluation of students. Susan"M" has become quite noteworthy, spawning both a major recent law review article exhaustively analyzing all the relevant precedents and poetry. Discussion of the case generates intense interest, particularly among academics (both faculty and administrators) and law students. The former are generally relieved by its outcome; the latter are distressed that they have to aim their developing litigation skills on targets other than their professors.
Our first purpose in …
Preventing Trauma For The Children Of Divorce Through Education And Professional Responsibility, Andrew Schepard, Joan Atwood, Steven W. Schlissel
Preventing Trauma For The Children Of Divorce Through Education And Professional Responsibility, Andrew Schepard, Joan Atwood, Steven W. Schlissel
Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship
Divorce is one of the greatest challenges that American children face. The numbers affected are enormous. In 1951, a rate of 6.1 children per thousand were involved in a divorce. In 1981, the rate reached18.7 children per thousand. Since then, the rate has fallen back some-what to 16.8 children per thousand in 1986, the last year for which statistics are available. This number translates to about 1.2 million children each year who experience the divorce of their parents. If current rates of divorce continue, we can expect that a significant percentage of all American children will become children of divorce …
M Is For The Many Things, Carol Sanger
M Is For The Many Things, Carol Sanger
Faculty Scholarship
People have gotten quite a few things about mothers and motherhood wrong over the last 700 or so years. Educators, historians, jurists, philosophers, physicians, social workers, and theologians have been telling us what mothers are like: what they need, how they feel, what pleases them, how and how well they think. Mothers didn't love their children in the fifteenth century and loved them too much in the 1950s. Black mothers felt no pain in childbirth, and white mothers felt no pleasure in intercourse. The obligations of motherhood, physical and social, have been used to explain why women should not work, …
Procedural Due Process Rights Of Incarcerated Parents In Termination Of Parental Rights Proceedings: A Fifty State Analysis, Philip Genty
Procedural Due Process Rights Of Incarcerated Parents In Termination Of Parental Rights Proceedings: A Fifty State Analysis, Philip Genty
Faculty Scholarship
Disruption of families through incarceration of parents has become an increasingly serious problem over the past decade. The prison population has grown dramatically, and for women prisoners the increases in the population are particularly striking. From 1980 through 1990, the number of women incarcerated in state and federal prisons increased from 13,420 to 43,845, an increase of 227 percent. In a single year, from 1988 to 1989, the number of incarcerated women increased by 24.4 percent. In 1990 there were an additional 37,844 women in local jails. For men the prison population increased by 130 percent from 316,401 to 727,398 …