James Dwyer

Articles and Book Chapters

• The Real Wrongs of ICWA, 69 Villanova L. Rev. 1 (2024).
• Faux Advocacy in Amicus Practice, 50 Pepperdine Law Review 633 (2023). SSRN.
• Smith’s Last Stand? Free Exercise and Foster Care Exceptionalism, 24 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 856 (2022).
• The Most Dangerous Branch of Science? Reining in Rogue Research and Reckless Experimentation in Social Services, 87 Mo. L. Rev. 1 (2022). SSRN.
• Clarifying Questions About the Nature of Rights, 12 Jurisprudence 47 (2021) (peer reviewed). Online.
• Deflating Parental Rights, 40 Law & Philosophy 387 (2021) (peer reviewed). Online.
• Forever Owned: Children as Possessions in the CRC, in Global Reflections on Children's Rights and the Law (Pamela Laufer-Ukeles and Ellen Marrus, Routledge 2021). Online.
• Screening Potential Parents, in The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law (James G. Dwyer ed., Oxford U. Press 2020).
• The Easiest Accommodation: Abandoning Other People’s Children to Their Parents’ Religion, 193 in The Contested Place of Religion in Family Law (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., Cambridge U. Press 2018).
• Regulating Child Rearing in a Culturally Diverse Society, in Philosophical Foundations of Children's and Family Law (Elizabeth Brake and Lucinda Ferguson eds., Oxford U. Press 2017).
• Religious Schooling and Homeschooling Before and After Hobby Lobby, 2016 U. Ill. L. Rev. 1393 (symposium).
• Diagnosing and Dispelling Denialism Regarding Children, in Denialism and Human Rights (Willems et al. eds., 2015).
• Same-Sex Cynicism and the Self-Defeating Pursuit of Social Acceptance Through Litigation, 68 SMU L. Rev. 1 (2015). SSRN.
• A Child-Centered View of Foster Parenting by Same-Sex Couples, Jurist (Dec. 2015). Online.
• Inter-country Adoption and the Special Rights Fallacy, 35 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 189 (2014). SSRN.
• Jailing Black Babies, 2014 Utah L. Rev. 465 (2014). SSRN.
• Moral Foundation of Children's Relational Rights, in Routledge Handbook of Family Law and Policy (Robert George & John Eekelaar eds. 2014).
• The Ever-Shrinking Case for a Constitutional Right to Same-Sex Marriage, Jurist (Feb. 2014). Online.
• Promising Protection: 911 Call Records as Foundation for Family Violence Intervention, 102 Ky. L.J. 49 (2014) (with Linda L. Bryant). SSRN.
• Who Decides?, in The Nature of Children's Well-Being: Theory and Practice (Colin Macleod & Alexander Bagattini eds., Springer 2013).
• Misused Concepts and Misguided Questions: Fundamental Confusions in Family Law Debates, 4 Int'l J. Jur. Fam. 239 (2013) (peer reviewed). SSRN.
• Equality Between Adults and Children: Its Meaning, Implications, and Opposition, 2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1007 (symposium article). SSRN.
• Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: Erasing the Last Vestiges of Human Property, 93 B.U. L. Rev. Annex 51 (2013). SSRN.
• No Accounting for School Vouchers, 48 Wake Forest L. Rev. 361 (2013) (symposium article). SSRN.
• Parents' Self-Determination and Children's Custody: A New Analytical Framework for State Structuring of Children's Family Life, 54 Ariz. L. Rev. 79 (2012). SSRN.
• The Parental Choice Fallacy in Education Reform Debates, 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1837 (2012) (symposium article). SSRN.
• No Place For Children: Addressing Urban Blight and its Impact on Children Through Child Protection Law, Domestic Relations Law, and "Adult-only" Residential Zoning, 62 Ala. L. Rev. 887 (2011). SSRN.
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Employment Division v. Smith for Family Law, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 1781 (2011) (symposium article). SSRN.
• Parental Entitlement and Corporal Punishment, 73 Law & Contemp. Probs. 189 (2010). SSRN.
• A Constitutional Birthright: The State, Parentage, and Newborn Persons, 56 UCLA L. Rev. 755 (2009). SSRN.
• First Parents: Reconceptualizing Newborn Adoption, 37 Cap. U. L. Rev. 293 (2009) (symposium article). SSRN.
• The Child Protection Pretense: States' Continued Consignment of Newborn Babies to Unfit Parents, 93 Minn. L. Rev. 407 (2008). SSRN.
• A Child-Centered Approach to Parentage Law, 14 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 843 (2006) (symposium article). SSRN.
• Children's Education Rights in a Liberal Democracy, 185 in Padagogische Modernisierung: Sakularitat und Sakralitat in der Modernen Padogigik (Hoffmann, Jacottet, & Osterwalder eds., Haupt Bern 2006).
• The Liberal State's Response to Religious Visions of Education, 44 J. Cath. Legal Stud. 195 (2005) (response to commentaries on my work). SSRN.
• School Accountability and "High Stakes Testing," 2 Theory & Res. Ed. 211 (2004). SSRN.
• A Taxonomy of Children's Existing Rights in State Decision Making About Their Relationships, 11 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 845 (2003) (symposium article). SSRN.
• Children's Rights, 443 in The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Education (Blackwell Pub. 2003).
• Funding Religion in a Post-Zelman World, 5(1) 11 (2003) (essay).
• 13 The School Field 7, reviewing Randall Curren, Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education, Rowan & Littlefield Publishing, Inc. 2000 (book review).
• Changing the Conversation About Children's Education, 314 in NOMOS XLIII: Moral and Political Education (NYU Press 2002).
• School Vouchers: Inviting the Public Into the Religious Square, 42 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 963 (2001) (symposium article). SSRN.
• Informed Consent for Neonatal Circumcision: An Ethical and Legal Conundrum, 17 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y 61 (2000) (with J. Steven Svoboda & Robert S. Van Howe). SSRN.
• Spiritual Treatment Exemptions to Child Medical Neglect Laws: What We Outsiders Should Think, 76 Notre Dame L. Rev. 147 (2000) (symposium article). SSRN.
• Children's Interests in a Family Context -- A Cautionary Note, 39 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1053 (1999) (symposium article).
• Setting Standards for Parenting -- By What Right?, 27 Child Psychiatry & Hum. Dev. 165 (1997).
• The Children We Abandon: Religious Exemptions to Child Welfare and Education Law as Denials of Equal Protection to Children of Religious Objectors, 74 N.C. L. Rev. 1321 (1996). SSRN.
• Parents' Religion and Children's Welfare: Debunking the Doctrine of Parents' Rights, 82 Cal. L. Rev. 1371 (1994). SSRN.