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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 schoolsโ€an affirmation of schoolsโ€™ 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...