Scholarship at the Center for Children, Law & Policy

Publications

The Center conducts policy research on numerous aspects of children’s rights:

• Children, Law and Disasters: What We Learned from Katrina and the Hurricanes of 2005, American Bar Association Publishing (2009)
• Gault: 40 Years Later: celebrating the U.S. Supreme Court decision that extended due process protections to children in juvenile court, the papers authored by the conference presenters at have been published in the peer-reviewed Criminal Law Bulletin:
  • David R. Katner, Foreword: The Legacy of Gault, 44 No. 3 Crim. Law Bulletin 1 (2008) (.pdf)
  • Steven Mintz, Placing Children's Rights in Historical Perspective, 44 No. 3 Crim. Law Bulletin 2 (2008) (.pdf)
  • Irene Merker Rosenberg, Gault Turns 40: Reflections on Ambiguity, 44 No. 3 Crim. Law Bulletin 3 (2008) (.pdf)
  • Michael L. Lindsey, The Impact of Gault on the Representation of Minority Youth, 44 No. 3 Crim. Law Bulletin 4 (2008) (.pdf)
  • Wallace J. Mlyniec, In re Gault at 40: The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court-A Promise Unfulfilled, 44 No. 3 Crim. Law Bulletin 5 (2008) (.pdf)
  • Ellen Marrus, Gault, 40 Years Later: Are We There Yet?, 44 No. 3 Crim. Law Bulletin 6 (2008) (.pdf)
• Gault In Schools: Why A Lawyer: A workbook for students to learn the importance of attorney representation in our legal system.
• Ellen Marrus & Irene Merker Rosenberg, Children and Juvenile Justice (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook)
• Juvenile Practice Is Not Child's Play (3rd Edition): An essential handbook prepared after each legislative session for attorneys representing juveniles in Texas in collaboration with Texas Appleseed
• Navigating the Juvenile Justice System: A handbook for juveniles and their families to navigate the juvenile justice system in Texas, produced in collaboration with Texas Appleseed
• Selling Justice Short: Juvenile Indigent Defense In Texas: An in-depth report produced in collaboration with the Texas Appleseed organization and the National Juvenile Defender Center
• Special-Purpose Handbooks For Targeted Audiences:
  • Overview for attorneys representing juveniles in Colorado
  • Handbook on details relating to “sealing” orders in juvenile cases
  • Outline of the Texas juvenile justice system for lay advocates
  • Comprehensive handbook for advocates working in special education

Symposia

The Center for Children, Law & Policy coordinates major gatherings for professionals from a variety of disciplines to closely examine important issues relating to children’s rights:

• 11th Annual Zealous Advocacy Conference, March 2012
  Child Development and Juvenile Justice
• 10th Annual Zealous Advocacy Conference, May 2011
  Back to Basics
  10:45 a.m. - Litigation Reform
  12:00 p.m. - LGBTQ Panel
  1:15 p.m. - Juveniles & Education
  4:00 p.m. - Challenging Probable Cause Before Detention
• 9th Annual Zealous Advocacy Conference, March 2010
• 8th Annual Zealous Advocacy Conference, March 2009
• Child Centered Jurisprudence And Feminist Jurisprudence: Exploring The Connections And The Tensions, November 2008
• Achieving Quality In Indigent Defense - Proposals, Prototypes, And Policymaking, September 2008
• Children's Defense Fund's Cradle To Prison Pipeline Texas Summit, March 2008
• Gault: A 40-Year Retrospective: How a pivotal case has influenced juvenile jurisprudence since 1967, November 2007
• Children And The Law After The Katrina Disaster: An Interdisciplinary Conference On Young Evacuees: How the legal system responded to the needs of thousands of displaced children
• The Aftermath Of Roper vs. Simmons: How the constitutional arguments against death sentences for juveniles influence the juvenile justice system