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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Samuel M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Children.

Children's rights--United States.

Children's rights.

Parent and child (Law)--United States.

Parent and child (Law).

Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

xiv, 459p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.

Summary:

In Children's Rights Under the Law, Professor Samuel M. Davis examines the 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, school discipline, compulsory school attendance, and regulation of obscenity).

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780199878215 : (ebk : Oxford Scholarship)

OCLC:

1336402981