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The Courts: Order in the Classroom

Bruce C. Hafen and Jonathan O. Hafen

There has been in recent years a surprisingly broad but little noticed shift in judicial thinking about public schools”an affirmation of schools’ right to define the intellectual and moral...

Abandoning Children to Their Rights

Bruce C. Hafen and Jonathan O. Hafen

In 1989 the United Nations General Assembly adopted, without a vote, a new Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Within a year, 130 nations had accepted the...