The evolving American family presents new psycholegal dilemmas. Recently many publicized landmark cases have involved custody disputes in which settlements turn on the genetic component. Although the court acknowledges the principle of "the best interest of the child" as important to the determination of custody, this interest is not absolutely paramount. Court rulings have taken the position t...

Children pose a puzzle for American constitutional jurisprudence. On the one hand, the Supreme Court has recognized that children are persons within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment and has accorded them some, but not all, of the individual rights enjoyed by adults.' On the other hand, the Court has largely reinforced the notion that the traditional family unit provides adequate constitu...

Abstract Divorce is not uncommon among Muslims in Senegal and tends to take place outside of court, even if the Senegalese Family Code has made out-of-court divorce illegal. Yet little known about how women particular may obtain court. This article provides ethnographic material on way out-of-court, repertoires justification they draw on. In line with scholarly work women’s use Islamic courts o...

This is a critical review of 37 published and unpublished evaluations of drug courts (including seven juvenile drug courts, one DUI court, and one family drug court) produced between 1999 and April 2001. The conclusions drawn from this research are generally consistent with those of previous reviews published by the author in June 1998 and December 1999. Drug courts have achieved considerable l...

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