Articles

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Dispute Resolution and the Post-divorce Family: Implications of a Paradigm Shift, 47 Family Court Review 363 (2009)
Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in the way the...
 

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Tributes to Professor Andy King (with Karen H. Rothenberg, William L. Reynolds, Gordon G. Young, and David Rosen), 67 Maryland Law Review 725 (2008)
Tributes to Professor Andrew King upon his retirement from the University of Maryland School of...
 

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Hamdan as an Assertion of Judicial Power, 66 Maryland Law Review 759 (2007)
In Hamdan v Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court rebuffed the Bush administration’s initial attempt to use...
 

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Juristocracy in the Trenches: Problem-Solving Judges and the Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Drug Treatment Courts and Unified Family Courts (with Richard Boldt), 65 Maryland Law Review 82 (2006)
This article explores the role of judges on two types of “problem-solving courts”: drug treatment...
 

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Marriage, Biology, and Paternity: The Case for Revitalizing the Marital Presumption, 65 Maryland Law Review 246 (2006)
This article examines the recent history and current status of the marital presumption of paternity....
 

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Adoption, Identity, and the Constitution: the Case for Opening Closed Records (with Naomi Cahn), 2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 150 (1999)
 

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Still Hostile After All These Years? Gender, Work & Family Revisited, 44 Villanova Law Review 297 (1999)
 

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Alimony and Efficiency: the Gendered Costs and Benefits of Economic Justification for Alimony, 82 Georgetown Law Journal 2423 (1994)
 

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Divorce Obligations and Bankruptcy Discharge: Rethinking the Support/Property Distinction, 30 Harvard Journal on Legislation 43 (1993)

The Bankruptcy Code currently divides divorce-related obligations into two categories: awards or agreements in the...

 

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The Privatization of Family Law, 1992 Wisconsin Law Review 1444 (1992)
 

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Women's Work, 11 Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy 1 (1991)
 

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Divorce Reform and Gender Justice, 67 North Carolina Law Review 1103 (1989)
The modern shift from fault-based to no-fault divorce has disappointed those who expected the no-fault...
 

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A Dissent on Joint Custody (with William L. Reynolds), 47 Maryland Law Review 497 (1988)
 

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Women in the Law School: It's Time for More Change (with Karen S. Czapanskiy), 7 Law & Inequality 135 (1988)
 

Books

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Resolving Family Conflicts (with Jane Murphy), (2008)
Over the past two decades, virtually all areas of family law have undergone major doctrinal...
 

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Family Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems (with Peter N. Swisher and Anthony Miller), (1998)
The Second edition of Family Law addresses contemporary family law issues and analyzes the public...
 

Conference Proceeding

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Legal Regulation of Marriage: From Status to Contract and Back Again?, (1997)
The purpose of this paper is to give a brief historical overview of the way...