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Child Family and State: Problems and Material on Children and the Law, Seventh Edition

Authors
  • Robert H. Mnookin
  • D. Kelly Weisberg
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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A landmark publication in its first edition, this was one of the first books to explore the full range of legal questions relating to children. This casebook presents an outstanding selection of cases and materials that reflect social and historical perspectives, law, and policy.

Features:

  • Life without Possibility of Parole for Persons
  • Who Commit Crimes as Juveniles
  • Graham v. Florida, 130 S. Ct. 2011 (2010)
  • Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 (2012)
  • Juveniles' Fourth Amendment Rights
  • Safford Unified School District v. Redding, 557 U.S. 364 (2009)
  • Juveniles’ Miranda Rights
  • J.D.B. v. North Carolina, 131 S. Ct. 2394 (2011)
  • Juveniles’ First Amendment Rights
  • Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn.,131 S. Ct. 2729 (2011)
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About the authors
Robert H. Mnookin
Harvard University

Robert H. Mnookin has held the position of Samuel Williston Professor of Law at Harvard Law School since 1993, after first being appointed Visiting Professor of Law in 1990. His principal areas of interest are dispute resolution, negotiation, and arbitration, in diverse contexts from family law to international law.

D. Kelly Weisberg
Professor of Law
University of California, Hastings

Professor of Law at University of California, Hastings, D. Kelly Weisberg is a lawyer and sociologist. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brandeis University, from which she also earned a Ph.D. in sociology in 1976. She received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1979, where she was a member of the California Law Review. Before joining the Hastings faculty in 1982, she worked at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, where she conducted legal research on the rights of children during the International Year of the Child. She has taught at Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Boston University, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem (where she was a Lady Davis Fellow). For the Spring semester 2010, she holds the Hurst Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Her research interests focus on issues in family law and children and the law. She has participated in federally-funded studies of juvenile parole, juvenile prostitution, family violence, and sexual exploitation of children. She served as a consultant for the American Bar Association, Women on Law Faculties Study, and for the American Justice Institute, National Juvenile Justice Assessment Center, for a study of child abuse. She testified before the Senate Subcommittee of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, on the relationship between runaway behavior and juvenile prostitution. She teaches Family Law, Children and the Law, and Wills and Trusts. She is the author of several law review articles and books, including Child, Family, State: Cases and Materials on Children and the Law (co-authored with Robert H. Mnookin) (Aspen Publishing, 5th ed. 2005); Adoption and Assisted Reproduction: Families Under Construction (co-authored with Susan F. Appleton)(Aspen Publishing, 2009); The Birth of Surrogacy in Israel (University Press of Florida, 2005); Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (co-authored with Susan F. Appleton) (Aspen Publishing, 4th ed. 2009); and Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives (Temple University Press, 1996).

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Edition
Seventh Edition
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Pages
932
Subject
Family Law, Elective
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