Date Chartered: 1/1/1973
Purpose
The Section on Family and Juvenile Law promotes the development and exchange of information relating to teaching and research in the fields of family and juvenile law and promotes collaborative action among those individuals having an interest in these fields.
Annual Meeting Programs
2025
- Main Program
- Pedagogy Program
- Works-in-Progress Program
- Education Law, Co-Sponsored Children and the Law and Family and Juvenile Law
- Children and the Law, Co-Sponsored by Education Law, Civil Rights, and Family and Juvenile Law
2024
- Main Program
- Family and Juvenile Law (Co-Sponsored by Minority Groups, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, and Women in Legal Education)
- Section Business Meetings
- Works-in-Progress
- Award Ceremony
2023
- Main Program
- Works-in-Progress
- Works-in-Progress (Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Education Law, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues)
- Business Meeting
- Award Ceremony
- Education Law (Co-Sponsored by Civil Rights, Family and Juvenile Law, and State and Local Government)
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues (Co-Sponsored by Children and the Law, Constitutional Law, and Family and Juvenile Law)
- Conflict of Laws (Co-Sponsored by Constitutional Law, Family and Juvenile Law, and Federal Courts)
2022
- Main Program
- Criminal Justice (Co-sponsored by Family and Juvenile Law)
- Aging and the Law (Co-sponsored by Family and Juvenile Law)
- Children and the Law (Co-sponsored by Family and Juvenile Law)
- Networking Session
- Works in Progress
- Pedagogy
2021
- Main Program
- Networking Session
- Aging and the Law (Co-Sponsored by Family and Juvenile Law)
- Pedagogy
2020
- Main Program
- Aging and the Law (Co-sponsored by Family and Juvenile Law)
- Pedagogy
2019
- Main Program
- Aging and the Law (Co-sponsored by Family and Juvenile Law)
- Pedagogy
Awards
Section on Family & Juvenile Law Achievement Award
Aimed at recognizing outstanding professionals who have made significant or long-term contributions to the fields of Family and/or Juvenile Law.
Specifically, the Award will recognize those who have made such contributions through any combination of the following:
- Assumption of leadership roles in the scholarly community;
- Support to and mentoring of colleagues; service to institutions, including but not limited to schools and professional organizations, both academic and practice-oriented;
- Provision of legal services to underserved segments of society; teaching and presenting;
- Scholarship, broadly and inclusively defined.
Recipients
| Year | Award Name | Recipient | Law School |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Section on Family & Juvenile Law Achievement Award | Nancy E. Dowd | University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law |
| 2025 | Emerging Scholar Award | Lisa Washington | University of Wisconsin Law School |
| 2025 | Emerging Scholar Award | Emily Stolzenberg | Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law |
| 2024 | Section on Family & Juvenile Law Achievement Award | Dorothy Roberts | University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School |
| 2023 | Section on Family & Juvenile Law Achievement Award | Elizabeth Scott | Columbia Law School |
| 2022 | Section on Family & Juvenile Law Achievement Award | Barbara Bennett-Woodhouse | Emory University School of Law |
| 2021 | Section on Family & Juvenile Law Achievement Award | Andrew Schepard | Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University |
| 2021 | Section on Family & Juvenile Law Achievement Award | Susan Frelich Appleton | Washington University in St. Louis School of Law |