Symposia

Justice for Needs of Children: Defining Public and Private Responsibilities

November, 1995

Drawing on the substantive expertise and interests of the law faculty, the Justice for Children Project began as a joint venture of the Moritz College of Law and its Center for Socio-Legal Studies (now known as the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies.

In November 1995, the Moritz College of Law and the Center, under the rubric of the Project, sponsored its first annual conference. Entitled Justice for Needs of Children: Defining Public and Private Responsibilities, the conference attracted lawyers, scholars, and researchers from a number of different disciplines.

The inter-disciplinary papers represented focused on the public role in the private family and were published in volume 57 of The Ohio State University Law Journal in 1996.

Papers published in this issue include:

• Edward B. Foley, Introduction
• Hon. George V. Voinovich, Remarks of the Governor
• Allan J. Samansky, Tax Policy and the Obligation to Support Children
• Anne L. Alston, Comments on Samansky, Tax Policy and the Obligation to Support Children
• Barbara Bennet Woodhouse, A Public Role in the Private Family: The Parental Rights and Responsibilities Act and the Politics of Child Protection and Education
• Emily Buss, Parents' Rights and Parents Wronged
• Deborah Jones Merritt, Ending Poverty by Cutting Teenaged Births: Promise, Failure, and Paths to the Future
• Frank L. Mott, Teen Parenting: Implications for the Mother and Child Generations
• Lolita M. McDavid, Child Health in America: Is This the Best We Can Do?
• Edward B. Foley, Social Justice and Child Poverty
• Martha Minow, Children's Studies: A Proposal
• Kay P. Kindred, God Bless the Child: Poor Children, Parens Patriae, and a State Obligation to Provide Assistance