“Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy and Practice” (West Publishing) had gone through four editions before UB Law Professor Susan V. Mangold got the call: Would she consider becoming a co-editor, contributing to a thorough revamping of the popular casebook for its fifth edition?
She would and she did. Now the newly published casebook, weighing in at 1,197 pages, stands as testament to the major work involved in updating and renewing the text, a standard choice for law professors teaching a survey course in children and the law.
“We chose some new cases, retained some cases, updated all the statistics — and it’s a pretty statistics-rich book,” Mangold says. “All comments have new information from recent cases, reflecting statutory changes, foundation reports, ABA reports. Anything that happened in the past three years in this area of law is edited down and contained in the book.”
Mangold, whose particular interests are in the foster care system and in child abuse and neglect, made substantial changes to the book chapters dealing with those areas. But her involvement reached throughout the casebook as she worked with co-editor Douglas E. Abrams of the University of Missouri School of Law. (Abrams’' co-editor for the first four editions, Professor Sarah H. Ramsey of the Syracuse University College of Law, is entering retirement.)
Working with three student research assistants — Daniel DeVoe, ’14, Valerie Stanek, ’14 and current third-year student Ann Dillon — Mangold reviewed the literature and case law for the chapters for which she was primary editor. She was particularly interested, she says, in incorporating information from public health studies on children in transitional situations.
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