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As a comprehensive children's law center and clinical legal education
resource, the Children and Family Justice Center is dedicated to helping
secure fairness and rights for children and providing law students
with a wide variety of experiences. It is also committed to legal
research and scholarship on laws and legal institutions that deal
with children all over the world.
Through lectures, newspaper and magazine articles by staff attorneys,
courses on Children and Human Rights, work as visiting faculty in
other countries, published articles and regular speakers and symposia,
the CFJC has addressed issues such as the condition of children
in Afghanistan, the condition of children in armed conflict, inter-country
adoption, corporal punishment, the right to education and health
care, and conditions of confinement.
Links
"False Confessions: A Report of Northwestern University Bluhm Legal Clinic’s
Children and Family Justice Center"
"Suspensions up in CPS," Chicago
Catalyst
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