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The Congressional Coalition On Adoption Institute, Alexandra Kuenzli

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Recent Changes To Indigenous Child Welfare In Canada, Carly Minsky

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Trump Administration's War On The Flores Settlement Agreement Renewed Amid Covid-19 Pandemic, Richard Vadasy

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Die Ähnlichkeiten: Learning From Similarities And Key Differences Between U.S. And German Education Policy In The Time Of Covid-19, Hannah Cholewinski

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Youth In Adult Court: Rethinking Illinois' Use Of Discretionary Transfer, Nicole Pijon

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Child Welfare, Reasonable Efforts, And Covid-19, Anita Weinberg, Lilia Valdez

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Children's Law Center, Symone Bullock

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Medals & Maltreatment: Protecting Elite Child Athletes From Abuse, Hannah Cholewinski

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Education In The Time Of Covid-19: Remote Learning's Mixed Effects On Students And The School System, Ariel Katz

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Quality Of Life Improves With Access To Choose: Easing Abortion Restrictions Benefits Both Mother And Child, Especially For Families Of Color, Emma Knight

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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School Resource Officers: Do The Benefits Of Student Safety Outweigh Their Negative Impacts?, Madeleine Morris

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Amending The Illinois Felony Murder Provision: Is It Enough?, Nicole Pijon

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Children's Legal Rights Journal

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An Ounce Of Prevention Is Worth A Pound Of Cure: Why Children's Lawyers Must Champion Preventative Legal Advocacy, Melissa D. Carter

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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An Examination Of Racism And Racial Discrimination Impacting Dual Status Youth, Jessica K. Heldman, Geoffrey A. Gaither Hon.

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Indigenous Children In Canada's Foster Care System: Bill C-92 And The Importance Of Cultural Identity, Elizabeth Newland

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Schools Still Struggle With Compensatory Education Despite Coming Back To The Classroom, Alexa Valenzisi

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Future Is Frightening: High Levels Of Climate Anxiety In Young People Linked To Government Inaction, Helen Wu

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Covid-19 And The "Virtual" School-To-Prison Pipeline, Victor M. Jones

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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Children And Racial Injustice In The United States: A Selective Annotated Bibliography And Call To Action, Christina Cullen, Olivia Alden, Diana Arroyo, Andy Froelich, Meghan Kasner, Conor Kinney, Anique Aburaad, Rebecca Jacobs, Alexandra Spognardi, Alexandra Kuenzli

Children's Legal Rights Journal

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The Role Of The Zealous Advocate: Implementing Lgbtqia+-Conscious Ethics In Juvenile Criminal Defense To Combat The School-To-Prison Pipeline, Mia Tyminski

Hofstra Law Student Works

The criminal legal system is no stranger to the concept of race-conscious ethics.² However, discussions surrounding other conscious-based ethics in our criminal legal system are scarce. Conscious-based ethics explore the need to understand the hardships a specific group undergoes without blinding oneself to the characteristics of the group. Conscious-based ethics seek out methods that reflect the historical significance and identities of specific groups.

There is a need for LGBTQIA+-conscious practices in the criminal legal system, especially within the juvenile criminal legal system. Youth that identify within the LGBTQIA+ community are more likely to engage with the criminal legal system …

The Miller Trilogy And The Persistence Of Extreme Juvenile Sentences, Cara H. Drinan

Scholarly Articles

In a series of Eighth Amendment cases referred to as the Miller trilogy, the Supreme Court significantly limited the extent to which minors may be exposed to extreme sentences. Specifically, in this line of cases the Court abolished capital punishment for minors and narrowed the instances when minors may be sentenced to life without parole. Only minors convicted of homicide who are found to be “in-corrigible” may now be subject to a death-in-custody sentence. In limiting extreme sentences for youth in these ways, the Supreme Court relied upon the social and medical science that demonstrates youth are simultaneously less culpable …

Virginia Renews Its Faith In Second Chances, The Honorable Jerrauld C. Jones, Julie E. Mcconnell

Law Faculty Publications

"On January 1, 1995, in the early morning hours, 17-year-old A.M. committed a crime in Virginia that would change his life forever. Tragically, he and two co-defendants took a man’s life. He will live the rest of his life regretting that day and working to become a better person. Something else significant happened on January 1, 1995˗˗Virginia’s legislation to abolish discretionary parole went into effect. (See Va. Code §53.1-165.1) If he had committed the crime one day earlier, A.M. would have been eligible for parole years ago. Under the new law, however, any person sentenced to a term of incarceration …

School “Safety” Measures Jump Constitutional Guardrails, Maryam Ahranjani

Seattle University Law Review

In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and efforts to achieve racial justice through systemic reform, this Article argues that widespread “security” measures in public schools, including embedded law enforcement officers, jump constitutional guardrails. These measures must be rethought in light of their negative impact on all children and in favor of more effective—and constitutionally compliant—alternatives to promote school safety. The Black Lives Matter, #DefundthePolice, #abolishthepolice, and #DefundSchoolPolice movements shine a timely and bright spotlight on how the prisonization of public schools leads to the mistreatment of children, particularly children with disabilities, boys, Black and brown children, and low-income children. …

Kinship Care In Pennsylvania: Creating An Equitable System For Families, Heidi Redlich Epstein, Lucy Johnston-Walsh, Jennifer Pokempner, Kathleen Creamer, Karissa Phelps

Faculty Scholarly Works

Family connection provides one of the most important contributions to the development and identity of children. A child’s family connections help them grow and thrive, provide them identity and security, and are a critical link to culture and traditions.

When experiencing difficult times, family members can support each other in ways no one else can, with the shared goal of keeping the family intact and connected.

When a child’s life is disrupted, calling on the support of family is custom in most communities and can be a great source of comfort for both children and the family. This is especially …

“Born Under My Heart”: Adoptive Parents’ Use Of Metaphors To Make Sense Of Their Past, Present, And Future, Lucas Hackenburg, Toni Morgan, Eve Brank

Center on Children, Families, and the Law: Faculty Publications

Metaphors provide the opportunity to make sense of our experiences and share them with others. The current research qualitatively examined interviews with adoptive parents who had adopted through intercountry or private adoptions. Throughout their interviews, each participant used at least one metaphor in describing their experiences of adopting and raising their child. Overarchingly, the metaphor of “Adoption is a journey” encapsulated parents’ experiences. To demonstrate the journey, parents used metaphors to describe the past, present, and future. Metaphors of the past focused on their child’s trauma and the origin of how the child came to join their family. Metaphors used …

Removing Police From Schools Using State Law Heightened Scrutiny, Christina Payne-Tsoupros

Journal Articles

This Article argues that school police, often called school resource officers, interfere with the state law right to education and proposes using the constitutional right to education under state law as a mechanism to remove police from schools. Disparities in school discipline for Black and brown children are well-known. After discussing the legal structures of school policing, this Article uses the Disability Critical Race Theory (DisCrit) theoretical framework developed by Subini Annamma, David Connor, and Beth Ferri to explain why police are unacceptable in schools. Operating under the premise that school police are unacceptable, this Article then analyzes mechanisms to …

A Fresh Start: The Evolving Use Of Juvenile Records In College Admissions, Eve Rips

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Questions about criminal and juvenile records in the college application process are common and frequently fail to account for the unique characteristics of juvenile justice systems. The ways in which colleges and universities ask about juvenile records often encourage applicants to disclose information in spite of statutory protections. These questions fly in the face of the public policy underlying a range of legal safeguards that are intended to help individuals with records from juvenile systems in moving forward and receiving a second chance.

In recent years, a series of legislative and institutional changes have begun to restrict how colleges and …

Parents And The Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children: A Flexible Approach, Alex Jones

Lewis & Clark Law Review

Before an Oregon court can send a child across the Columbia River to live with a Washington foster parent, the authorities on the Washington side must first approve the move. Unless and until that happens, the child stays in Oregon. But what if the Washington “foster” parent is the child’s biological father? The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) imposes conditions on the sending of children across state lines to live with foster parents or potential adoptive parents. Courts in different states have long disagreed over whether those conditions ever apply to the placement of children with their …