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Legal Research Guides by Course - Children and the Law (formerly Juvenile Law)

Course Description

This course examines the legal rights (and not infrequent completing interests) of parents and children and the State's authority to regulate those interests and define the parent-child relationship. Among the topics discussed are children's and parents' rights of expression and religious exercise, parent-child privacy, liabilities and limitations on autonomy, education including trends in anti-bullying laws and policy, economic relationships, foster care and "aging out" of state care, children living with life-limiting conditions, fertility preservation and legal issues raised by assisted reproduction impacting children's interests, child poverty and homelessness, status offenses and juvenile curfews, child misconduct and the juvenile justice system, and the role of counsel and representation of children. In relation to the various topics we will also consider the ways that ‘childhood' is constructed by the law, aspects of childhood that are ignored by that legal construct, and the ways the construction could be challenged and changed. In addition, we will examine scientific and social science literature on child development and its application by legislatures and courts. (3 credits) Paper

Faculty Who Teach This Course

  • Rhoda Gay Hartman (adjunct professor)

Subject Covered Presently in Collection by

Print Collection

KF337.J88 Legal Services to Juveniles
KF479 Law of Persons - Capacity and disability - Minors
KF547-KF549 Parental Rights and Duties - Property of Minors - Custody
KF4150-KF4166 Education - Students
KF9771-KF9827 Juvenile Criminal Law and Procedure

Legal Research Databases

Anti-Bullying Law
Child Abuse and Neglect
Child Poverty and Homelessness
Child Welfare System
Education and Children
Juvenile Justice System and Misconduct by Children
Medical Decision Making and Children
Blogs

DCLI Webpage Links

  • Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law (contains quick links to our federal and state statutes, our federal and state administrative codes, and federal and state case law)
  • Legal Research Guides: Family Law

Course Listed Under the following Law School Concentrations

 

Created by Patricia Horvath
rev. 2/18/2013