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REPRESENTING CHILDREN: ETHICAL AND PRACTICAL PROBLEMS
Oregon Child Advocacy Project
University of Oregon School of Law
Eugene, OR
April 2-3, 2010
Representing children charged with delinquent acts or who are the subjects of chid custody disputes or juvenile court dependency proceedings presents a host of issues in addition to the perennial favorite, whether to advocate for a child's expressed wishes or best interests. This conference seeks papers that explore these issues. Papers already have been published or may be works in progress. Possible topics might include:
--Client counseling and the best interests/expressed wishes dilemma
--Competence to stand trial as an alternate approach to the best interests/expressed wishes issue
--Scope of representation of a child's court-appointed lawyer -- Of a child in state custody may have a tort claim against the state, what can the lawyer do? what must the lawyer do?
--Representing siblings -- current and former client conflicts of interest
--Confidentiality and the child client -- who can you talk to and what can you tell them?
--Impaired adult clients -- who can ask for a guardian ad litem and what happens if you don't?
Please submit your proposal to [log in to unmask] by Jan. 25, 2010.
For more information, please contact Prof. Leslie Harris, whose contact info is below:
Leslie Harris
Dorothy Kliks Fones Professor
School of Law
1221 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1221
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