ABA Family Law Quarterly: Family Law and Children’s Educational Rights

In June 2024, the ABA Family Law Section Family Law Quarterly scholarly journal published an issue on Family Law and Children’s Educational Rights, https://www.americanbar.org/groups/family_law/publications/family-law-quarterly/volume-57/issue-2-3/ (articles also available in Westlaw/Lexis). The articles address a range of current legal, policy, and practice issues relating to the overlapping fields of family law, elementary and secondary education law, civil rights law, and children’s rights. Articles include:

• Restating the Law Governing Children’s Education, by Emily Buss, University of Chicago Law School
• The Ontological Expansiveness of “Parental Rights” Rhetoric in K–12 Public Schools, by Sacha M. Coupet & Kai Scott, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• Centering Students’ Rights in Our Democracy: A Case Study from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, by Samantha C. Pownall, New York Law School
• The Intersection of Special Education and Family Law: Thoughts for Family Law Attorneys in Divorce and Custody Cases, by Richard D. Marsico, New York Law School
• Prioritizing Children’s Educational Interests When One Parent Leaves an Ultra-Orthodox Community, by Julie F. Kay, Footsteps
• Period Rhetoric and Partisan Politics, by Emily Gold Waldman & Bridget J. Crawford, Elizabeth Haub School of Law, Pace University
• Improving the Educational Outcomes of Students in Foster Care: Recommendations Based on an Analysis of Data from New York City, by Sarah Part & Erika Palmer, Advocates for Children of New York