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Children's Rights: A Movement In Search Of Meaning, Stephen W. Bricker
Children's Rights: A Movement In Search Of Meaning, Stephen W. Bricker
University of Richmond Law Review
The children's rights movement is a unique phenomenon among the various "rights" efforts today. Nonetheless, it shares some superficial similarities with the other antildiscrimination movements. Children's rights, like those of blacks and women, concern the role of an identifiable segment of our society which has traditionally been placed at a legal and social disadvantage. The children's rights movement also espouses the reallocation of legal power as a means to correct this perceived imbalance. Further, it grew out of the same social currents, first apparent in the 1950's and 1960's, which produced the kindred civil rights efforts.
The Repudiation Of Plato: A Lawyer's Guide To The Educational Rights Of Handicapped Children, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
The Repudiation Of Plato: A Lawyer's Guide To The Educational Rights Of Handicapped Children, Robert E. Shepherd Jr.
University of Richmond Law Review
Plato's solution for the handicapped children of Athens advanced some 2400 years ago was rejected by the Supreme Court of the United States in famous dictum in Meyer v. Nebraska as being "ideas. . . wholly different from those upon which our institutions rest .... " However, it took about half a century for the ultimate repudiation of the ideas espoused by the great philosopher as the Supreme Court's 1923 dictum finally bore fruit in federal court decisions establishing a constitutional right to education for handicapped children and in a congressional definition of such a right in the Education for …