SEASON 3

Children and the Law: Protecting the Vulnerable in a Time of Crisis

The treatment of the children in two distinct areas of the law – child welfare and juvenile justice – is fraught with difficulty even under the best of circumstances. But with the onslaught of the COVID pandemic, the regular challenges and the need to protect children have only been compounded.

In this episode of Reasonably Speaking, juvenile justice scholar and Chief Reporter of the Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law, Elizabeth Scott guides our Children and the Law-exclusive panel through a series of discussions centering on child advocacy and juvenile law during a pandemic. The panel explores how the law defines parental authority, what rights a child has in custody, how lawyers can best represent a child in the system during a pandemic, and more.

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A transcript of the full episode is available here. Please excuse typos due to inaudible passages or transcription errors.

 

A Promising Start to Early Childhood Development and the Law

Huntington, Clare, A Promising Start for Early Childhood Development and the Law (August 22, 2019). 71 Fla. L. Rev. F. 70 (2019), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3441226. Available at SSRN.

Conceptualizing Legal Childhood in the Twenty-First Century

Huntington, Clare and Scott, Elizabeth S., Conceptualizing Legal Childhood in the Twenty-First Century (September 4, 2019). Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-633. Available at SSRN.

The Empirical Turn in Family Law

Huntington, Clare, The Empirical Turn in Family Law (January 22, 2018). Columbia Law Review, Vol. 118, No. 227, 2018, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3106866. Available at SSRN.

The Legal Framework Governing Corporal Punishment

Huntington, Clare, The Legal Framework Governing Corporal Punishment (May 11, 2020). 73 Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 91 (2020), Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3598190. Available at SSRN.

Fiduciary Principles in Family Law

Scott, Elizabeth S. and Chen, Ben, Fiduciary Principles in Family Law (February 2, 2018). Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (Evan Criddle, Paul Miller and Robert Sitkoff, editors), Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-577. Available at SSRN.

Young Adulthood as a Transitional Legal Category: Science, Social Change and Justice Policy

Scott, Elizabeth S. and Bonnie, Richard J. and Steinberg, Laurence, Young Adulthood as a Transitional Legal Category: Science, Social Change and Justice Policy (July 9, 2018). Fordham Law Review, Vol. 85, No. 2, 2016, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-594. Available at SSRN.