Children & the Law Blog

The Center for Children, Law & Policy at the University of Houston recently brought together a group of leading scholars to explore the connections and the tensions between “feminist jurisprudence” and “child-centered jurisprudence.” Audio from the conference is now available and video podcast will follow shortly. Publications from these presentations will be published next year [...]

CBS News: Girl Wins Right To Refuse Vital Transplant
Hannah Jones, 13, is not afraid of dying - she is afraid of spending her remaining days in a hospital bed. In a case that raises a host of medical and ethical issues, the British teenager from a small town northwest of London has won a battle [...]

Justin Wolfers notes an economic analysis of a long-suspected phenomena in the Freakonomics article Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids. Scott Carrell of U.C. Davis and Mark Hoekstra of U.Pitt, published their findings in “Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone’s Kids” (.pdf), [...]

Living in the United States, it’s often easy to forget how different a child’s life can be in other countries. President Bush recently signed into law a bill, which though admirable, graphically illustrates how far we still have to go to ensure a healthy and happy childhood in much of the world. As noted in [...]

What makes the Community School unusual is not its student body — plenty of schools around the country enroll teenagers with an autism spectrum disorder. But, like about only two dozen schools in the country, it employs a relatively new, creative and highly interactive teaching method known as D.I.R./Floortime, which is producing striking results among [...]