“Infant Prenatal Substance Exposure and Later Child Maltreatment in the US”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
Child Protection and Practice
2025

“Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and the Risk of Subsequent Maltreatment”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Child Abuse & Neglect
2025

“Mandated Reporting of Child Maltreatment”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
An Introduction to the Medical Evaluation of Child Maltreatment
2024

“Michigan’s Youth Justice Reform: A Potholed But Sure Road To Change”

Kimberly Thomas
  • Children and the Law
South Carolina Law Review
2024

“Commentary: The Legal System Response to Child Maltreatment”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
Child Maltreatment
2023

“The New Orleans Transformation: Foster Care as a Rare, Time-Limited Intervention”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Lewis and Clark Law Review
2023

“The ties that bind us: An empirical, clinical, and constitutional argument against terminating parental rights”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Family Court Review
2023

Mich. Ruling Widens Sentencing Protections For Young Adults

Kimberly Thomas
  • Criminal Law
  • Children and the Law
2022

Testimony before the Commission on Native Children

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
  • Children and the Law
2022

“A Quiet Revolution: How Judicial Discipline Essentially Eliminated Foster Care and Nearly Went Unnoticed”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Columbia Journal of Race and Law
2022

Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
2022

“From Zero to Thrive: A Model of Cross-System and Cross-Sector Relational Health to Promote Early Childhood Development across the Child-Serving Ecosystem”

Joshua B. Kay
  • Children and the Law
Infant Mental Health Journal
2022

“The Indian Child Welfare Act”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2022

“Terminating a Child’s Relationship with Their Parent”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2022

“Mental Health Evaluations and Treatment for Parents and Children”

Joshua B. Kay
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2022

“Representing Non-Offending Parents”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2022

“Preventative Legal Advocacy”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2022

“Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
  • Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Law Review
2022

“Intimate Choice and Autonomy: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
  • Constitutional Law
  • Children and the Law
Critical Race Judgements: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law
2022

Preventing Child Abuse: Critical Roles and Multiple Perspectives

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
2021

“Preventing Child Maltreatment Through Medical-Legal Partnership”

Debra Chopp
  • Children and the Law
Preventing Child Abuse: Critical Roles and Multiple Perspectives
2021

“Breaking Down the Silos that Harm Children: A Call to Child Welfare, Domestic Violence and Family Court Professionals”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper
2021

Children’s Justice: How to Improve Legal Representation of Children in the Child Welfare System

Donald N. Duquette
  • Children and the Law
2021

“Rethinking Foster Case”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Southern Methodist University Law Review
2020

“The Law and Policy of Child Maltreatment”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
Handbook of Interpersonal Violence and Abuse Across the Lifespan
2020

“A Cure Worse Than the Disease? The Impact of Removal on Children and Their Families”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Marquette Law Review
2019

“Ineffective Homeschooling in a Child with a Learning Disability”

Debra Chopp
  • Children and the Law
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
2019

“Feigned Consensus: Usurping the Law in Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma Prosecutions”

David A. Moran
  • Children and the Law
Wisconsin Law Review
2019

“Advocating for Children with Disabilities in Child Protection Cases”

Joshua B. Kay
  • Children and the Law
Touro Law Review
2019

“Prenatal Exposure as Aggravated Circumstances”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
2019

“New Juvenile Discovery Rules: Mandatory, Comprehensive, and Streamlined”

Joshua B. Kay
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
2019

“ ‘Of Sound Mind and Body’: A Call for Universal Drug Screening for All Newborns”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
The Oxford Handbook of Children and Law
2019

“Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children”

Amy L. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
American Journal of Public Health
2019

“The Americans with Disabilities Act: Legal and Practical Applications in Child Protection Proceedings”

Joshua B. Kay
  • Children and the Law
Capital University Law Review
2018

“My Name Is Not ‘Respondent Mother’: The Need for Procedural Justice in Child Welfare Cases”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice Today
2018

“Family Separation and the Triumph of Cruelty”

Richard Primus
  • Children and the Law
Foreign Affairs
2018

“Child Abuse Evidence: New Perspectives from Law, Medicine, Psychology”

David A. Moran
  • Children and the Law
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
2017

“Moving Beyond Lassiter: The Need for a Federal Statutory Right to Counsel for Parents in Child Welfare Cases”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Journal of Legislation
2017

“Timely Permanency or Unnecessary Removal?”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
2017

“The Legal Response to Child Abuse and Neglect”

Joshua B. Kay
  • Children and the Law
The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment
2017

“Child Welfare’s Scarlet Letter: How a Prior Termination of Parental Rights Can Permanently Brand A Parent as Unfit”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
N.Y. U Review of Law & Social Change
2017

“Educational Equality for Children with Disabilities: The 2016 Term Cases”

Samuel R. Bagenstos
  • Children and the Law
ACS Supreme Court Review 2016-2017
2017

Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect and Dependency Proceedings

Donald N. Duquette Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
2016

“Juvenile Justice Reform and the Myth of the Superpredator”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
Bridge Magazine
2016

“A Child’s Journey Through the Child Welfare System”

Donald N. Duquette
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2016

“Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2016

“The Organization of Child Representation Services in Child Welfare Cases: A Study of Washington State”

Donald N. Duquette
  • Children and the Law
Family Court Review
2016

“Mental Health Evaluations in Child Welfare Settings”

Joshua B. Kay
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice
2016

“Easy Come, Easy Go: The Plight of Children Who Spend Less Than 30 Days in Foster Care”

Vivek S. Sankaran
  • Children and the Law
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change
2016

“Federal Legislation Protecting Children and Providing for Their Well-Being”

Frank E. Vandervort
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
2016