Vivek Sankaran

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 2006-

Book Chapters

• "Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases." In Child Welfare Law and Practice: Representing Children, Parents, and State Agencies in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases. 2nd ed., edited by D. Duquette and A. Haralambie, 579-615., 24478. Denver, Colo.: Bradford Pub. Co., 2010.
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Journal Articles

• "Preventing the Unnecessary Entry of Children into Foster Care." Mich. B. J. 90, no. 9 (2011): 41.
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• "No Harm, No Foul? Why Harmless Error Analysis Should not Be Used to Review Wrongful Denials of Counsel to Parents in Child Welfare Cases." S. C. L. Rev. 63, no. 1 (2011): 13-41.
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• Co-author. "Crow Dog vs. Spotted Tail: Case Closed." T. Connors, co-author. Mich. B. J. 89, no. 7 (2010): 36-8.
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• "A Hidden Crisis: The Need to Strengthen Representation of Parents in Child Protective Proceedings." Mich. B. J. 89, no. 10 (2010): 36-9.
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• "When Child Protective Services Comes Knocking." Fam. Advoc. 31, no. 3 (2009): 8-10.
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• "Protecting a Parent's Right to Counsel in Child Welfare Cases." ABA Child L. Prac. 28, no. 7 (2009): 97-105.
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• "Parens Patriae Run Amuck: The Child Welfare System's Disregard for the Constitutional Rights of Non-Offending Parents." Temp. L. Rev. 82, no. 1 (2009): 55-87.
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• "Judicial Oversight Over the Interstate Placement of Foster Children: The Missing Element in Current Efforts to Reform the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children." Cap. U. L. Rev. 38, no. 2 (2009): 385-408.
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• "Navigating the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children: Advocacy Tips for Child Welfare Attorneys." ABA Child L. Prac. 27, no. 3 (2008): 33, 38-41.
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• "Advocating for the Constitutional Rights of Nonresident Fathers." ABA Child L. Prac. 27, no. 9 (2008): 129-30, 134-7.
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• "Procedural Injustice: How the Practices and Procedures of the Child Welfare System Disempower Parents and Why It Matters." Mich. Child Welfare L. J. 11, no. 1 (2007): 11-9.
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• "Innovation Held Hostage: Has Federal Intervention Stifled Efforts to Reform the Child Welfare System?" U. Mich. J. L. Reform 41, no. 1 (2007): 281-315.
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• "Perpetuating the Impermanence of Foster Children: A Critical Analysis of Efforts to Reform the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children." Fam. L. Q. 40, no. 3 (2006): 435-66.
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• "Out of State and Out of Luck: The Treatment of Non-Custodial Parents Under the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children." Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 25, no. 1 (2006): 63-94.
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• "But I Didn't Do Anything Wrong: Revisiting the Rights of Non-Offending Parents in Child Protection Proceedings." Mich. B. J. 85, no. 3 (2006): 22-5.
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• "Rejection Versus Termination: A Sublessee's Rights in a Lease Rejected in a Bankruptcy Proceeding Under 11 U.S.C. § 365(d)(4)." Mich. L. Rev. 99, no. 4 (2001): 853-75. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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