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Conceptualizing Legal Childhood In The Twenty-First Century, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott
Conceptualizing Legal Childhood In The Twenty-First Century, Clare Huntington, Elizabeth S. Scott
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The law governing children is complex, sometimes appearing almost incoherent. The relatively simple framework established in the Progressive Era, in which parents had primary authority over children, subject to limited state oversight, has broken down over the past few decades. Lawmakers started granting children some adult rights and privileges, raising questions about their traditional status as vulnerable, dependent, and legally incompetent beings. As children emerged as legal persons, children’s rights advocates challenged the rationale for parental authority, contending that robust parental rights often harm children. And a wave of punitive reforms in response to juvenile crime in the 1990s undermined …
2012 Survey Of Juvenile Law, Michael J. Dale
2012 Survey Of Juvenile Law, Michael J. Dale
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2009 Survey Of Juvenile Law, Michael J. Dale
2009 Survey Of Juvenile Law, Michael J. Dale
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Simon Says Take Three Steps Backwards: The National Conference Of Commissioners On Uniform State Laws Recommendations On Child Representation, Jane M. Spinak
Simon Says Take Three Steps Backwards: The National Conference Of Commissioners On Uniform State Laws Recommendations On Child Representation, Jane M. Spinak
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In considering whether I wanted to submit a response to this conference, I turned back to the Fordham Law Review's Proceedings of the Conference on Ethical Issues in the Legal Representation of Children, now referred to by this conference's participants as Fordham. While the entire volume helped me to formulate this response, I want to begin by acknowledging Linda Elrod's and Ann Haralambie's two responses in Fordham as essential to my decision. In a few short pages they encapsulated the essential message of Fordham: that by the end of the last century, the practice of lawyers for children was to …