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The Mature Minor Doctrine And Covid Vaccination In Connecticut, Brianna Cyr Jan 2024

The Mature Minor Doctrine And Covid Vaccination In Connecticut, Brianna Cyr

Connecticut Law Review

The mature minor doctrine is an exception to the common law rule of parental informed consent for a child’s medical decisions. The mature minor doctrine is applicable as either doctrine or statute in some states, but not all. Connecticut currently upholds the common law view for a minor child’s medical decision-making authority. Consequently, one prominent topic of discussion in recent years deals with the Covid-19 pandemic and the public policy discussions over nation-wide vaccination efforts. Many minors, children legally under the age of eighteen, are looking to make their own medical decisions when dealing with vaccination for the Coronavirus. By …


Compulsory Conjugality, Erez Aloni Jan 2021

Compulsory Conjugality, Erez Aloni

Connecticut Law Review

What happens when the state changes the default rules that govern financial obligations between unmarried partners from opt in to opt out? Most states have an opt-in rule: unmarried partners do not take on financial obligations of one another unless they agree to do so with a contract. Nevertheless, advocates argue that an opt-out system puts the burden in the right place: unmarried couples who want to avoid default obligations should bear the burden of making contracts. A scholarly debate over the opt-in/opt-out model has raged for twenty years, but the issue is now coming to a head. Yet no …


Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?, Tina P. Lapsia May 2015

Impact Of The “Nirbhaya” Rape Case: Isolated Phenomenon Or Social Change?, Tina P. Lapsia

Honors Scholar Theses

In December 2012, a twenty-three year old college student, who was given the pseudonym “Nirbhaya” (“fearless”), was fatally gang-raped on a private bus in Delhi, India, galvanizing the country to swiftly adopt new legislative measures and catapulting the issue of violence against women in India into the international spotlight. Although assault and rape cases have made India infamous for its high volume of crimes against women, the reaction to this particular incident was much different from before. This paper investigates whether the governmental and societal responses represent social change, as indicated by changing attitudes towards violence against women in India. …


In The Name Of The Child: Race, Gender, And Economics In Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, Bethany Berger Jan 2015

In The Name Of The Child: Race, Gender, And Economics In Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, Bethany Berger

Faculty Articles and Papers

On June 25, 2013, the Supreme Court decided Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, holding that the Indian Child Welfare Act did not permit the Cherokee father in that case to object to termination of his parental rights. The case is ostensibly about a dispute between prospective adoptive parents and a biological father. This Article demonstrates that it is about a lot more than that. It is a microcosm of anxieties about Indianness, race, and the changing nature of parenthood. While made in the name of the child, moreover, the decision supports practices and policies that do not forward and may …


Coalition, Cross-Cultural Lawyering, And Intersectionality: Immigrant Identity As A Barrier To Effective Legal Counseling For Domestic Violence Victims, Jessica H. Stein Oct 2011

Coalition, Cross-Cultural Lawyering, And Intersectionality: Immigrant Identity As A Barrier To Effective Legal Counseling For Domestic Violence Victims, Jessica H. Stein

Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal

Vol. 11, No. 1


The In-Between Places Where Children Are Socialized, Anne Dailey Jan 2007

The In-Between Places Where Children Are Socialized, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

In Between Home and School, Professor Rosenbury makes a splendid contribution to the emerging legal scholarship on the influence of cultural contexts on children's socialization. Scholars in this field have begun to study the effects on children of the media, peer relationships, civic institutions, and early caregiving environments. Professor Rosenbury's is a bold new voice in this genre offering a normative paradigm of space to replace the traditional dyadic model of state-parent authority over children. At the heart of the spatial paradigm is the view that in-between spaces socialize children in ways that differ both procedurally and substantively from the …


Painter V. Bannister: Still, Carol Weisbrod Jan 2006

Painter V. Bannister: Still, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod Oct 1999

Comment On Property And Divorce, A, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Susanna And The Elders: A Note On The Regulation Of Families, Carol Weisbrod Jan 1998

Susanna And The Elders: A Note On The Regulation Of Families, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Children's Rights Vs. Adult Free Speech: Can They Be Reconciled, Loftus Becker Jan 1997

Children's Rights Vs. Adult Free Speech: Can They Be Reconciled, Loftus Becker

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Lochner For Women: The Ideology Of Separate Spheres In Muller V. Oregon, Anne Dailey Jan 1996

Lochner For Women: The Ideology Of Separate Spheres In Muller V. Oregon, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Federalism And Families, Anne Dailey Jan 1995

Federalism And Families, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Way We Live Now: A Discussion Of Contracts And Domestic Arrangements, The, Carol Weisbrod Jan 1994

Way We Live Now: A Discussion Of Contracts And Domestic Arrangements, The, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Privacy And The Just Family, Anne Dailey Jan 1993

Constitutional Privacy And The Just Family, Anne Dailey

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Divorce Stories: Readings, Comments And Questions On Law And Narrative, Carol Weisbrod Jan 1991

Divorce Stories: Readings, Comments And Questions On Law And Narrative, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


On The Expressive Functions Of Family Law, Carol Weisbrod Apr 1989

On The Expressive Functions Of Family Law, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Family, Church And State: An Essay On Constitutionalism And Religious Authority, Carol Weisbrod Jan 1988

Family, Church And State: An Essay On Constitutionalism And Religious Authority, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.


Comment On Friedman Paper, Carol Weisbrod Jan 1984

Comment On Friedman Paper, Carol Weisbrod

Faculty Articles and Papers

No abstract provided.