“Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and the Risk of Subsequent Maltreatment”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Child Abuse & Neglect
2025
“How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose in Work”
Bridgette A. Carr Vivek S. Sankaran
Law360
2025
“Applying Strict Scrutiny in Termination of Parental Rights Proceedings: Why Alabama’s Jurisprudence Should Reshape Child Protection Practice”
Vivek S. Sankaran
Alabama Law Review
2024
“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
“Designing a Fulfilling Life in the Law”
Bridgette A. Carr Vivek S. Sankaran
Journal of Legal Education
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
“Comment: Without Effective Lawyers, Do More Determinate Legal Standards Really Matter?”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
Stanford Law & Policy Review
2022
Southern Methodist University Law Review
2020
“Compassion: The Necessary Foundation to Reunify Families Involved in the Foster Care System”
Vivek S. Sankaran
Family Court Review
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“No Harm, No Foul? Why Harmless Error Analysis Should Not Be Used to Review Wrongful Denials of Counsel to Parents in Child Welfare Cases”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
South Carolina Law Review
2011
“Preventing the Unnecessary Entry of Children into Foster Care”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
2011
“A Hidden Crisis: The Need to Strengthen Representation of Parents in Child Protective Proceedings”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
2010
“Crow Dog vs. Spotted Tail: Case Closed”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
2010
“Protecting a Parent’s Right to Counsel in Child Welfare Cases”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
2009
“Parens Patriae Run Amuck: The Child Welfare System’s Disregard for the Constitutional Rights of Non-Offending Parents”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Constitutional Law
- Children and the Law
Temple Law Review
2009
“When Child Protective Services Comes Knocking”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Family Advocate
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”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Capital University Law Review
2009
“Navigating the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children: Advocacy Tips for Child Welfare Attorneys”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
2008
“Advocating for the Constitutional Rights of Nonresident Fathers”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Constitutional Law
- Children and the Law
ABA Child Law Practice
2008
“Procedural Injustice: How the Practices and Procedures of the Child Welfare System Disempower Parents and Why It Matters”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal
2007
“Innovation Held Hostage: Has Federal Intervention Stifled Efforts to Reform the Child Welfare System?”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
2007
“But I Didn’t Do Anything Wrong: Revisiting the Rights of Non-Offending Parents in Child Protection Proceedings”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Michigan Bar Journal
2006
“Out of State and Out of Luck: The Treatment of Non-Custodial Parents Under the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Yale Law and Policy Review
2006
“Perpetuating the Impermanence of Foster Children: A Critical Analysis of Efforts to Reform the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Family Law Quarterly
2006
“Rejection Versus Termination: A Sublessee’s Rights in a Lease Rejected in a Bankruptcy Proceeding Under 11 U.S.C. § 365(d)(4)”
Vivek S. Sankaran- Children and the Law
Michigan Law Review
2001