Children's rights under the law

Children's rights under the law / Samuel M. Davis.

In Children's Rights Under the Law, Professor Samuel M. Davis examines ways in which the law relates to children, from private law (torts, contracts, property, child labor, and emancipation) to public law (First Amendment rights of children in school, abortion decision-making for children, scho...

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Main Author: Davis, Samuel M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
United States. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court
Children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Children's rights > United States.
Parent and child (Law) > United States.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Children > Legal status, laws, etc.
Children's rights
Juvenile justice, Administration of
Parent and child (Law)
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • The place of children in the law
  • Private law and children's rights
  • "Life, liberty and property" : the Supreme Court and children's rights
  • "Life" : medical decision-making for children
  • "Liberty" : personal freedom of children
  • "Property" : protected entitlements of children
  • Children and education
  • Protection from inadequate parenting
  • The Supreme Court and juvenile justice
  • Delinquency : differential treatment of children and adults
  • Adjudication
  • The dispositional process
  • Conclusion : balancing the interests.

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