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

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
Book, Whole
Published
2022

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

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
Columbia Journal of Race and Law
Journal Article
Published
2022

"Comment: Without Effective Lawyers, Do More Determinate Legal Standards Really Matter?"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
Stanford Law & Policy Review
Journal Article
Published
2022

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

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
GWU Legal Studies Research Paper
Journal Article
Published
2021

"Rethinking Foster Case"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Southern Methodist University Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2020

"The Moment to Transform Child Protective Courts"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
COVID-19 and Child Welfare: Challenges and Responses
Book Chapter
Published
2020

"Compassion: The Necessary Foundation to Reunify Families Involved in the Foster Care System"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
Family Court Review
Journal Article
Published
2020

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

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Marquette Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2019

"My Name Is Not 'Respondent Mother': The Need for Procedural Justice in Child Welfare Cases"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice Today
Journal Article
Published
2018

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

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

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

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

"Timely Permanency or Unnecessary Removal?"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
Journal Article
Published
2017

"Child Welfare Appellate Advocacy"

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

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

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

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

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Book, Whole
Published
2016

"Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases"

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

"Strange Bedfellows: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Benefit from Investing in Multidisciplinary Parent Representation"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Journal Article
Published
2015

Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases: Advice and Guidance for Family Defenders

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Book, Whole
Published
2015

"Foster Kids in Limbo: The Effects of the Interstate Compact on Children in Foster Care"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
Journal Article
Published
2014

"Using Preventive Legal Advocacy to Keep Children from Entering Foster Care"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
William Mitchell Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2014

"No Harm, No Foul? Why Harmless Error Analysis Should Not Be Used to Review Wrongful Denials of Counsel to Parents in Child Welfare Cases"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
South Carolina Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2011

"Preventing the Unnecessary Entry of Children into Foster Care"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
Journal Article
Published
2011

"A Hidden Crisis: The Need to Strengthen Representation of Parents in Child Protective Proceedings"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
Journal Article
Published
2010

"Crow Dog vs. Spotted Tail: Case Closed"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
Journal Article
Published
2010

"Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
Book Chapter
Published
2010

"When Child Protective Services Comes Knocking"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Family Advocate
Journal Article
Published
2009

"Judicial Oversight Over the Interstate Placement of Foster Children: The Missing Element in Current Efforts to Reform the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Capital University Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2009

"Protecting a Parent's Right to Counsel in Child Welfare Cases"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
Journal Article
Published
2009

"Parens Patriae Run Amuck: The Child Welfare System's Disregard for the Constitutional Rights of Non-Offending Parents"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Constitutional Law
  • Children and the Law
Temple Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2009

"Advocating for the Constitutional Rights of Nonresident Fathers"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Constitutional Law
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
Journal Article
Published
2008

"Navigating the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children: Advocacy Tips for Child Welfare Attorneys"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
Journal Article
Published
2008

"Innovation Held Hostage: Has Federal Intervention Stifled Efforts to Reform the Child Welfare System?"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Journal Article
Published
2007

"Procedural Injustice: How the Practices and Procedures of the Child Welfare System Disempower Parents and Why It Matters"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal
Journal Article
Published
2007

"Out of State and Out of Luck: The Treatment of Non-Custodial Parents Under the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Yale Law and Policy Review
Journal Article
Published
2006

"Perpetuating the Impermanence of Foster Children: A Critical Analysis of Efforts to Reform the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Family Law Quarterly
Journal Article
Published
2006

"But I Didn't Do Anything Wrong: Revisiting the Rights of Non-Offending Parents in Child Protection Proceedings"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
Journal Article
Published
2006

"Rejection Versus Termination: A Sublessee's Rights in a Lease Rejected in a Bankruptcy Proceeding Under 11 U.S.C. § 365(d)(4)"

  • Sankaran, Vivek S.
  • Children and the Law
Michigan Law Review
Journal Article
Published
2001
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