Clare Huntington

Books

• Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective (NYU Press 2023) (editor, with Courtney Joslin and Christiane von Bary)
• Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships (Oxford University Press 2014) (paperback edition 2016)

Articles

• “AI Companions and Family Law,“ 110 MINN. L. REV. (forthcoming 2025)
• “Fatherhood, Family Law, and the Crisis of Boys and Men,” 124 COLUM. L. REV. 2153 (2024) (with June Carbone)
• “Pragmatic Family Law,” 136 HARV. L. REV. 1501 (2023)
• “Family Law for the One-Hundred-Year Life,” 132 YALE L. J. 1691 (2023) (with Naomi Cahn and Elizabeth Scott)
• “The Institutions of Family Law,” 102 B.U. L. REV. 393 (2022)
• “Reconceptualizing Legal Childhood,” 118 MICH. L. REV. 1371 (2020) (with Elizabeth S. Scott)
• “The Empirical Turn in Family Law,” 118 COLUM. L. REV. 227 (2018) Translated into Spanish and published as “El giro empírico en el derecho de familia,” in Pinkus, María Fernanda (Coord.), Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, 2022
• “Early Childhood Development and the Law,” 90 S. CAL. L. REV. 755 (2017)
• “Postmarital Family Law: A Legal Structure for Nonmarital Families,” 67 STAN. L. REV. 167 (2015)
• “Staging the Family,” 88 N.Y.U. L. REV. 589 (2013)
• “Familial Norms and Normality,” 59 EMORY L.J. 1103 (2010)
• “Repairing Family Law,” 57 DUKE L.J. 1245 (2008)
• “The Constitutional Dimension of Immigration Federalism,” 61 VAND. L. REV. 787 (2008)
• “Mutual Dependency in Child Welfare,” 82 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1485 (2007)
• “Rights Myopia in Child Welfare,” 53 UCLA L. REV. 637 (2006)
• “Welfare Reform and Child Care: A Proposal for State Legislation,” 6 CORNELL J. L. & PUB. POL’Y 95 (1996)

Book chapters

• “Racial Equity and the Limits of Pragmatism,” in Families of Color and Social Change (forthcoming NYU Press) (Nancy Dowd and Robin Lenhardt, eds.)
• “The 100 Year Life and the New Family Law,” in Law and the One-Hundred-Year Life (forthcoming) (Anne Alstott and Abbe Gluck, eds.) (with Naomi Cahn and Elizabeth Scott)
• “Child Development and the Family Regulation System,” in The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology and the Law (forthcoming) (Allison Redlich and Jodi Quas, eds.)
• “The Future of Social Parenthood,” in Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective (NYU Press 2023) (with Courtney Joslin and Christiane von Bary)
• “Early Childhood Development and the Replication of Poverty,” in Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty (Ezra Rosser ed.) (Cambridge Univ. Press 2019)
• “New Knowledge in Child Protection: Neuroscience and its Impact on Practice,” in Beyond the Risk Paradigm: Current Debates and New Directions in Child Protection (Marie Connolly ed.) (Palgrave 2017)
• “Affective Family Law,” in The Emotional Dynamics of Law and Legal Discourse (John Stannard and Heather Conway eds.) (Hart 2016)

Other publications

• “Parental Rights: Rhetoric versus Doctrine,” 91 CHI. L. REV. 503 (2024)
• “The Enduring Importance of Parental Rights,” 90 FORDHAM L. REV. 2529 (2022) (with Elizabeth S. Scott)
• “The Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law: A Blueprint for Reforming the Child Welfare System,” 60 FAM. CT. REV. 32 (2021)
• “The New Restatement of Children and the Law: Legal Childhood in the Twenty-First Century,” 54 FAMILY L.Q. 91 (2021) (with Elizabeth S. Scott)
• “Lessons from the Prekindergarten Movement,” 47 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 343 (2020)
• “The Legal Framework Governing Corporal Punishment,” 73 PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY CHILD 91 (2020)
• “Abortion Talk,” 117 MICH. L. REV. 1043 (2019) (reviewing Carol Sanger, About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First Century America)
• “A Promising Start for Early Childhood Development and the Law,” 71 FLA. L. REV. F. 70 (2019)
• “Family Law’s Exclusions,” 87 FORDHAM L. REV. ONLINE 64 (2019)
• “The Complex First Family,” 56 FAM. CT. REV. 351 (2018)
• “Moore Kinship: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Moore v. City of East Cleveland,” 85 FORDHAM L. REV. 2551 (2017) (with R.A. Lenhardt)
• “The Place of Flourishing Families,” 43 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 963 (2017) (with Nestor Davidson)
• “Nonmarital Families and the Legal System’s Institutional Failures,” 50 FAM. L.Q. 247 (2016)
• “Introduction, Special Issue: Feminist Legal Theory,” 9 STUD. L. POL. & SOC. 1 (2015) (with Maxine Eichner)
• “Obergefell’s Conservatism: Reifying Familial Fronts,” 84 FORDHAM L. REV. 23 (2015) (invited symposium)
• “Children’s Health in a Legal Framework” (with Elizabeth Scott), 21 FUTURE OF CHILDREN 177 (2015) (invited symposium)
• “Family Law and Nonmarital Families,” 53 FAM. CT. REV. 233 (2015) (invited special issue)
• “The Child Welfare System and the Limits of Determinacy,” 76 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 221 (2014) (invited symposium)
• “Neuroscience and the Child Welfare System,” 21 J. L. & Pol’y 37 (2012) (invited symposium)
• “Flourishing Families,” 50 FAM. CT. REV. 273 (2012) (invited special issue)
• “Introduction, Special Issue: Emerging Family Law Scholars and Teachers,” 50 FAM. CT. REV. 179 (2012)
• “Purple Haze,” 109 MICH. L. REV. 903 (reviewing Naomi Cahn and June Carbone, Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture) (2011)
• “Feminism’s Family, Legal Feminism Now Symposium,” Issues in Legal Scholarship, Berkeley Electronic Press (2011) (invited symposium)
• “Embracing the Affective Family,” 33 HARV. J. L. & GENDER 321 (2010) (invited symposium)
• “Happy Families? Translating Positive Psychology into Family Law,” 16 VA. J. SOC. POL’Y & L. 385 (2009) (invited symposium)