Date Chartered: 5/22/2007
Purpose
The Section on Children and the Law promotes the communication and dissemination of ideas, interests, and activities among its members; fosters scholarship on legal issues surrounding children and the law, critical childhood jurisprudence, policy development, and curriculum development and teaching methodology for child-related courses; enriches the legal profession through greater awareness of child-related issues; promotes a greater diversity of perspectives within legal education; and makes recommendations to the Association on matters concerning children and the law.
Children and the Law Section Bylaws
2024
2023
Main Program
Pedagogy Program
Family and Juvenile Law (Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Education Law, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues)
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues (Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Constitutional Law, and Family and Juvenile Law)
Family and Juvenile Law (Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Education Law, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues)
2022
Film Screening of “Youth v Gov” (Sponsored by the AALS Section on Children and the Law and Denver University Sturm College of Law)
Main Program
Section on Criminal Justice (Co-sponsored by Children and the Law)
Section on Family and Juvenile Law (Co-sponsored by Children and the Law)
Section on International Human Rights Law (Co-sponsored by Children and the Law)
Section on Law and Sports (Co-sponsored by Children and the Law)
2021
2020
Main Program
Business Meeting
International Human Rights (Co-sponsored by Children and the Law)
2019
Main Program
Family and Juvenile Law (Co-sponsored by Children and the Law)
Children and the Law Fall/Winter 2020 Newsletter (PDF)
Children and the Law Spring/Summer 2020 Newsletter (PDF)
Children and the Law Spring/Summer 2019 Newsletter (PDF)
Children and the Law Fall/Winter 2018 Newsletter (PDF)
Children and the Law Spring/Summer 2018 Newsletter (PDF)
Children and the Law Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter (PDF)