Conference Proceedings

Nevada Law Journal

Volume 6 Spring 2006 Number 3

Special Issue On Legal Representation Of Children

Representing Children in Families—Foreword

Bruce A. Green & Annette R. Appell..............................571


Proceedings of the UNLV Conference on Representing Children in Families: Children's Advocacy and Justice Ten Years After Fordham

  • RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONFERENCE..............................................................592
  • REPORTS OF THE WORKING GROUPS.....................................................................616

Role of the Family..........................................................616

Role of Age and Stage of Development.............................623

Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Class....................................634

Role of Sex and Sexuality................................................642

Lessons of International Law, Norms, and Practice............656

Representing the Whole Child..........................................665

Representing Children as Members of Communities...........670

Best Interests of the Child and the Role of the Attorney.....682


ARTICLES

Children’s Voice and Justice: Lawyering for Children in the Twenty-First Century, Annette R. Appell . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . 692

Representing Children in Families, Susan L. Brooks....................................................................724

Something’s Happening Here: Children and Human Rights Jurisprudence in Two International Courts, Bernardine Dohrn . . 749

Coming Out for Kids: Recognizing, Respecting, and Representing LGBTQ Youth, Barbara Fedders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 774

How Children’s Lawyers Serve State Interests, Martin Guggenheim . . . 805

It Takes a Lawyer to Raise a Child?: Allocating Responsibilitiesamong Parents, Children, and Lawyers in Delinquency Cases, Kristin Henning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836

Obtaining and Utilizing Comprehensive Forensic Evaluations: The Applicability of One Clinic’s Model Antoinette Kavanaugh, Jennifer Clark, Tiffany Masson, & Barbara Kahn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 890

God Bless the Child: The United States’ Response to Domestic Juvenile Prostitution, Nesheba Kittling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913

Minor Discrepancies: Forging a Common Understanding of Adolescent Competence in Healthcare Decision-Making and Criminal Responsibility, Kimberly M. Mutcherson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 927

How Children Are Heard in Child Protective Proceedings, in the United States and Around the World in 2005: Survey Findings, Initial Observations, and Areas for Further Study Jean Koh Peters . . . 966

The Logistical and Ethical Difficulties of Informing Juveniles about the Collateral Consequences of Adjudications, Michael Pinard . . . . . 1111

Defending and Despairing: The Agony of Juvenile Defense, Abbe Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1127

Girl Talk—Examining Racial and Gender Lines in Juvenile Justice, Kim Taylor-Thompson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1137

Choiceless Choices: Deportation and the Parent-Child Relationship, David B. Thronson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1165


RESPONSES TO THE CONFERENCE

Developmentally-Sound Practice in Family and Juvenile Court

Marty Beyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1215

Representing Children and International Norms

Naomi Cahn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1232

Two Distinct Roles/Bright Line Test

Donald N. Duquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1240

The Child’s Representation under CAPTA: It Is Time for Enforcement

Gerard F. Glynn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1250

Children’s Attorneys’ Obligation to Turn to Parents to Assess Best

Interests

Christine Gottlieb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263

Recognizing the Expertise of Children and Families

Ann M. Haralambie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1277

A Response to the Recommendations of the UNLV Conference:

Another Look at the Attorney/Guardian
Ad Litem Model

Robert F. Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1284

Evaluating the Impact of Intervention on Families

Catherine E. Krebs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296

Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: Enhancing Youth Participation in

Court Proceedings

Miriam Aroni Krinsky & Jennifer Rodriguez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302

Standing in Babylon, Looking Toward Zion

Katherine R. Kruse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315

The Importance of Using Alternative Dispute Resolution Techniques

and Processes in the Ethical and Informed Representation of

Children

Kelly Browe Olson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1333

Buzz in the Brain and Humility in the Heart: Doing It All, Without

Doing Too Much, on Behalf of Children

Erik Pitchal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1350

A Place at the Table: Creating Presence and Voice for Teenagers in

Dependency Proceedings

Catherine J. Ross . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1362

In Search of a Child’s Future

Shari F. Shink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1374

Simon Says Take Three Steps Backwards: The National Conference of

Commissioners on Uniform State Laws Recommendations on

Child Representation

Jane M. Spinak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1385

Representing Children with Disabilities: Legal and Ethical

Considerations

Kim Brooks Tandy & Teresa Heffernan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1396

APPENDIX

Recommendations of the 1995 Fordham Conference on Ethical Issues

in the Legal Representation of Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1408


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