“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
“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
“Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act”
Matthew L.M. Fletcher- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- Children and the Law
Michigan Law Review
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
“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
Southern Methodist University Law Review
2020
“New Juvenile Discovery Rules: Mandatory, Comprehensive, and Streamlined”
Joshua B. Kay- Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
2019
“Opposing Family Separation Policies for the Welfare of Children”
Amy L. Sankaran- Children and the Law
American Journal of Public Health
2019
“Advocating for Children with Disabilities in Child Protection Cases”
Joshua B. Kay- Children and the Law
Touro Law Review
2019
“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
“Prenatal Exposure as Aggravated Circumstances”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
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
“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
Foreign Affairs
2018
“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
“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
“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
“Child Abuse Evidence: New Perspectives from Law, Medicine, Psychology”
David A. Moran- Children and the Law
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
2017
“Does Changing Mandated Reporting Laws Improve Child Maltreatment Reporting in Large U.S. Counties?”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Children and Youth Services Review
2016
“A Liberal Dilemma: Respecting Autonomy While Also Protecting Inchoate Children from Prenatal Substance Abuse”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
2016
“Differential Response: Misrepresentation of CPS Investigation and Case Fact Finding”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
APSAC Advisor
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
“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
“Juvenile Justice Reform and the Myth of the Superpredator”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Bridge Magazine
2016
“The Child Quasi-Witness”
Richard D. Friedman- Criminal Law
- Children and the Law
Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law
2015
“Strange Bedfellows: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Benefit from Investing in Multidisciplinary Parent Representation”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Center for the Study of Social Policy
2015
“Using Screening and Assessment Evidence of Trauma in Child Welfare Cases”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
2015
“Characteristics of Attorneys Representing Children in Child Welfare Cases”
Donald N. Duquette- Children and the Law
Family Law Quarterly
2015
“Effects of Clergy Reporting Laws on Child Maltreatment Report Rates”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
APSAC Advisor
2014
“Universal reporting laws and child maltreatment report rates in large U.S. counties”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Children and Youth Services Review
2014
“Foster Kids in Limbo: The Effects of the Interstate Compact on Children in Foster Care”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
2014
“Using Preventive Legal Advocacy to Keep Children from Entering Foster Care”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
William Mitchell Law Review
2014
Res Ipsa Loquitur
2014
“Protecting Child Witnesses on the Witness Stand: The Law and the Role of the Forensic Social Worker in Criminal Proceedings”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Journal of Forensic Social Work
2013
“Invited Commentary on ‘Issue in Differential Response’ ”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Research on Social Work Practice
2013
“Child Welfare Cases Involving Parents with Disabilities”
Joshua B. Kay- Children and the Law
State Bar of Michigan Disabilities Project Newsletter
2013
“Examining Shaken Baby Syndrome Convictions in Light of New Medical and Scientific Research (Symposium)”
David A. Moran- Children and the Law
Oklahoma City University Law Review
2012
“Building Resilience in Foster Children: The Role of the Child’s Advocate”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Children’s Legal Rights Journal
2012
“Child Welfare Cases Involving Mental Illness: Reflections on the Role and Responsibilities of the Lawyer-Guardian Ad Litem”
Frank E. Vandervort- Children and the Law
Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal
2012
“Representing Parents with Severe Mental Illness in Child Welfare Cases”
Joshua B. Kay- Children and the Law
Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal
2012
“Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abusive Head Trauma, and Actual Innocence: Getting it Right”
David A. Moran- Children and the Law
Houston Journal of Health Law and Policy
2012
“When Federal and State Systems Converge: Foreign National Human Trafficking Victims Within Juvenile and Family Courts”
Bridgette A. Carr- Human Rights
- Children and the Law
Juvenile and Family Court Journal
2012
“School Districts and Families Under the IDEA: Collaborative in Theory, Adversarial in Fact”
Debra Chopp- Children and the Law
Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary
2012
“Child Representation in America: Progress Report from the National Quality Improvement Center”
Donald N. Duquette- Children and the Law
Family Law Quarterly
2012