Joan Catherine Bohl - Publications

Professor of Legal Skills

B.A., Boston University
J.D., Suffolk University

Courses:
Children and the Law, Research and Writing I and II

Book Chapters

Children and the Law: The Competing Rights, Privileges and Interests of Children, Parents, and the State (Vandeplas Publishing 2010) (co-author Christine Metteer Lorillard).

Current Trends in Grandparent Visitation Law, in Wiley's 1998 Family Law Update Book ch. 1 (Wiley 1998).

Articles

When 'Happily Ever After' Isn't: Dissolving Same Sex Marriages in the United States, 2009 Int'l Family L.J. 94.

Generations X and Y in Law School: Practical Strategies for Teaching the "MTV/Google" Generations, (forthcoming 2008).

Gay Marriage in Rhode Island: A Big Issue for a Small State, 12 Roger Williams L. Rev. 291 (2006) (lead article).

That "Thorny Issue" Redux: California Grandparent Visitation in the Wake of Troxel v. Granville, 36 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 121 (2006).

Von Eiff v. Aziciri: An Important Step in the Refinement of Grandparent Visitation Analysis, 15 St. Thomas L. Rev. 367 (2002).

Grandparent Visitation Law Grows Up: The Trend towards Awarding Visitation Only When the Child Would Otherwise Suffer Harm, 48 Drake L. Rev. 279 (2000).

Mom, Dad and Me: Court-Ordered Grandparent Visits Invade Family Privacy, Leg. Times 58 (Jan. 10, 2000).

Grandparent Visitation: Over the River and into the Courts, 35 Tr. 28 (Dec. 1999).

Family Autonomy vs. Grandparent Visitation: How Precedent Fell Prey to Sentiment in Herndon v. Tuhey, 62 Mo. L. Rev. 755 (1997).