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Children, Parents, and the Law: Public and Private Authority in the Home, Schools, and Juvenile Courts, Fourth Edition

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Authors
  • Leslie Joan Harris
  • Lee E. Teitelbaum
  • Tamar R. Birckhead
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Book length
868 pages
Publication Date
2019-09-12
Edition
Fourth Edition
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This very teachable book is ideal for child-focused courses that deal with the juvenile justice system and the child welfare system or with the legal position of children within their families and society. The Fourth Edition is updated with case law and legislation current through mid-2019, including the Supreme Court’s latest decisions on special education, constitutional limits on punishing minors, new materials on conflicts between parents and state authorities over school curriculum, faith healing, and compulsory vaccination, as well as on the free speech and free exercise rights of students. The chapters on delinquency explore why the new understanding of how and when adolescents mature is revolutionizing the law, and the unit on child abuse and neglect and the child welfare system covers new state and federal legislation, as well as cases from around the country that examine the tension between protecting children’s relationships with their families and protecting them from harm.

New to the Fourth Edition:

  • The Supreme Court’s latest special education decisions
  • Cases challenging new, tough legislation eliminating exceptions to vaccination requirements
  • More in-depth examination of the conflict between students’ free speech rights and schools’ anti-bullying initiatives
  • The “Making a Murderer” case as a vehicle for analyzing limits on police interrogation of juveniles
  • Cases exploring how Troxel affects child abuse and neglect cases

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • Problem exercises throughout the book—some short and others longer and more complex
  • An interdisciplinary approach that incorporates information from related social sciences such as psychology and sociology
  • Balanced perspective and coverage of issues, with no perceptible liberal or conservative bias in tone or selection of topics
  • Ample coverage of juvenile courts
  • Logical organization and clear structure that make it suitable for a variety of teaching styles
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About the authors
Leslie Harris
Dorothy Kliks Fones Professor of Law, Emeritus
University of Oregon

Leslie Harris retired from the University of Oregon School of Law as the Dorothy Kliks Fones Professor in 2018. She taught Family Law and other courses and directed the Oregon Child Advocacy Project, which provided education and assistance to attorneys advocating for the legal interests of children. She has written law review articles about the child welfare system, nontraditional families, family support duties, child custody, and property rights at divorce. She is also the author of a textbook for Children and the Law. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and was one of the first recipients of the law school's Orlando John Hollis Faculty Teaching Award.

Lee E. Teitelbaum

Lee E. Teitelbaum, the late Hugh B. Brown Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, earned A.B. (magna cum laude) and LL.B. degrees at Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He graduated with an LL.M. in 1968 from Northwestern University Law School, where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow. His began his teaching career in 1968 at the University of North Dakota, the first of several academic appointments, which included SUNY at Buffalo Law School, University of New Mexico Law School, and Indiana University at Bloomington, where he was director of the Center for the Study of Legal Policy Relating to Children. He came to the University as a visiting professor in 1985, and served as dean from 1990 to 1998, when he was appointed Allan R. Tessler Dean and Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School. He returned to the Utah campus in 2003.

Considered one of the nation’s leading family law scholars, Teitelbaum was well-known and well-respected throughout legal education.

Tamar R. Birckhead

Tamar Birckhead is an assistant professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she teaches the Juvenile Justice Clinic and the criminal lawyering process. Her research interests focus on issues related to juvenile justice policy and reform, criminal law and procedure, and indigent criminal defense. Her scholarship appears in the Buffalo Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Rutgers Law Review, Washington and Lee Law Review, and Washington University Law Review, among others. Her current projects include Juvenile Justice 2.0, forthcoming in Brooklyn Law School’s Journal of Law and Policy, and Delinquent by Reason of Indigency, forthcoming in Washington University’s Journal of Law and Policy. She is a visiting assistant professor at Duke Law School this semester, teaching a course on juvenile courts and delinquency.

Prior to joining the UNC School of Law faculty in 2004, Professor Birckhead taught at Suffolk University Law School in the Suffolk Defenders Program, a year-long criminal defense clinic. After clerking for the late Hon. Edith Fine in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, she practiced for ten years as a public defender, representing indigent criminal defendants in the Massachusetts trial and appellate courts as a staff attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services and in federal district court in Boston as an assistant federal public defender. Professor Birckhead has defended clients in a wide variety of criminal cases, from violent felony offenses in state court to acts of terrorism in federal court. Among her clients was Richard Reid, the attempted "Shoe Bomber," prosecuted in the First Circuit under the U.S.A. Patriot Act.

Licensed to practice in North Carolina, New York, and Massachusetts, Professor Birckhead has been a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education programs across the United States as well as a faculty member at the Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School. She is vice president of the board for the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence and has been appointed to the executive council of the Juvenile Justice and Children’s Rights Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. She is also a member of the advisory board for the North Carolina Juvenile Defender, as well as a member of the Criminal Defense Section and the Juvenile Defender Section of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers. Professor Birckhead received her B.A. degree in English literature with honors from Yale University and her J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, where she served as Recent Developments Editor of the Harvard Women’s Law Journal.
Product Information
Edition
Fourth Edition
Publication date
2019-09-12
Copyright Year
2019
Pages
868
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543801712
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9781543849820
Subject
Family Law, Elective
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