Curricular Offerings

The Justice for Children Project engages in research and law reform while providing law students with exciting opportunities to explore the legal issues pertaining to children.

Through its Justice for Children Practicum the Project trains third-year law students to represent children in a variety of legal settings and proceedings.

Children and the Law, a course offered every year to all second- and third-year students, allows students to explore the intricacies of children's rights under the law.

Family Law covers the requisites for marriage and the grounds for divorce while exploring the constitutional and jurisprudential issues affecting familial and intimate relationships.

Research assistantships and participation in the conferences and symposia sponsored by the Project provide students with additional educational and professional opportunities.

In the Spring of 2003, the University approved a Certificate in Children Studies for students enrolled in the Moritz College of Law.

Since the Project began in January 1998, law students have worked on an amicus brief to the Ohio Supreme Court in an interstate contested adoption, an amicus brief to the Washington Court of Appeals in a custody dispute between a lesbian couple, directly represented children in delinquency, status offense, judicial bypass, domestic and probate cases, and researched interesting and innovative legal and constitutional claims for children.