{"id":44,"date":"2024-08-17T21:19:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/?page_id=44"},"modified":"2026-03-24T03:03:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T03:03:41","slug":"articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shanimking.com\/lawyer\/publications\/articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Establishing a Constitutional Right to Family Contact for Detained Youth, <\/em>(forthcoming, Mich. Journal of Race & Law)<\/p>

The Convention on the Rights of the Child in the Context of U.S. Federalism: Lessons from the COVID-19 School Masking Bans<\/em>\u00a0(forthcoming, FIU Law Review)<\/p>

Tracing the Roots of a Poisonous Tree: On the Origins and Impact of Criminal Terminology in a Civil Apprehension Scheme<\/em>, 53 N.M.L.Rev 255 (2023). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Contextualizing (Children\u2019s) Immigration in Law, History, Theory and Politics<\/em>, 1 MICH. ST. L. REV. 187 (2022). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Cooperative Federalism and SIJS<\/em>, 61 B.C. L. REV. 8 (2020) (with Nicole Silvestri Hall). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Unaccompanied Minors, Statutory Interpretation, and Due Process<\/em>, 108 CALIF. L. REV. (2020) (with Nicole Silvestri Hall). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Child Migrants and America\u2019s Evolving Immigration Mission<\/em>, 32 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 59 (2019). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Immigration, Adoption and Our National Identity<\/em>, 26 DUKE J. GENDER L. & POL\u2019Y 85 (2019) (focus of a symposium at Duke Law School for which the discussants were Dean Kerry Abrams and Professor Katheryn Bradley). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

The Intersection of Juvenile Justice and Early Childhood: How to Maximize Family Engagement<\/em>, FLA. L. REV. FORUM (2019) (Shani King, Hannah Ayasse, Alyssa Mikytuck, Rachel F Barr, Jennifer F. Woolard, and Terry Harrak) (invited). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Life-Changing Decisions: Exploring Proximal and Distal Motivations Behind Why American Parents Adopt Domestically or Internationally<\/em>, 18 GLOBAL J. HUM. SOC. SCI. 1 (2018) (Yu Zhang, Victor W. Harris, David Diehl, Shani King, Alison Schmeer, and Kyra Speegle).<\/p>

Lessons from the Baby Elmo Project: Fostering the Relationships Between Incarcerated Teen Parents and Their Young Children<\/em>, 93 N.C.L. REV. 1381 (2015) (Shani King, Jennifer Woolard, and Rachel Barr) (invited). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

The Hague Convention and Domestic Violence: Proposals for Balancing the Policies of Discouraging Child Abduction and Protecting Children from Domestic Violence<\/em>, 38 FAM. L.Q. 299 (2013). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Alone and Unrepresented: A Call to Congress to Provide Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors<\/em>, 50 HARV. J. ON LEGIS. 331 (2013) (selected by the Immigration and Nationality Law Review as one of the best immigration articles published in 2013 and reprinted in the Immigration and Nationality Law Review; recognized by Jotwell as one of the best recent works of recent scholarship relating to family law and reviewed on the Jotwell website). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Owning Laura Silsby\u2019s Shame: How the Haitian Child Trafficking Scheme Embodies the Western Disregard for the Integrity of Poor Families<\/em>, 25 HARV. HUM. RTS. J. 1 (2012). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

The Family Law Canon in a (Post?) Racial Era<\/em>, 72 OHIO ST. L.J. 575 (2011). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

U.S. Immigration Law and the Traditional Nuclear Conception of Family: Toward a<\/em>
Functional Definition of Family That Protects Children\u2019s Fundamental Human Rights<\/em>, 41 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 509 (2010). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Challenging MonoHumanism: An Argument for Changing the Way We Think About Intercountry Adoption<\/em>, 30 MICH. J. INT\u2019L L. 413 (2009). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>

Race, Identity, and Professional Responsibility: Why Legal Services Organizations Need African American Staff Attorneys<\/em>, 18 CORNELL J.L. & PUB. POL\u2019Y 1 (2008). [SSRN<\/a>]<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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