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 [...]

As the Texas FLDS case and the case of Omar Khadr, the juvenile captured in Afghanistan and being held in Guantanamo Bay pending charges of war crimes, continue to unfold, this article from Slate and Newsweek published last month sheds some light on American society’s view of teenagers.
Anyone who’s ever spent a year or two [...]

Texas continues to debate its policy of randomly testing student athletes for steroid use especially after it was reported last month that only 2 students tested positive out of a total of 10,000 students tested. GritsforBreakfast recently offered some of the pros and cons of these random tests.
Since I’ve argued against continued steroid testing [...]

In another students’ rights issue similar to last week’s post on the clash between Native American Beliefs and a school’s dress code, the Student Press Law Center and Legal Blog Watch reported that a high school student was banned from wearing a John Edwards T-Shirt at school because it violated the school’s policy of prohibiting [...]