Christopher Church

Emory University School of Law

Senior Clinical Fellow

1301 Clifton Road

Atlanta, GA 30322

United States

University of South Carolina School of Law

Pro Bono Attorney & Academic Affilliate

Clinical Law Office

1525 Senate Street

Columbia, SC 29208

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

8

DOWNLOADS

633

SSRN CITATIONS

3

CROSSREF CITATIONS

0

Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

The Ties that Bind Us: An Empirical, Clinical, and Constitutional Argument Against Terminating Parental Rights

Sankaran & Church (2023), The Ties That Bind Us: An Empirical, Clinical, and Constitutional Argument Against Terminating Parental Rights, Family Court Rev., 61(2), 246-264.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 11 Apr 2023
Vivek Sankaran and Christopher Church
University of Michigan and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 236 (215,281)

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children, constitutional law, family court, foster care, termination of parental rights, trauma

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Reimagining Schools' Role Outside the Family Regulation System

Brianna Harvey, Josh Gupta-Kagan, & Christopher Church, Reimagining Schools' Role Outside the Family Regulation System, Columbia Journal of Race & the Law (Forthcoming 2021).
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Brianna Harvey, Josh Gupta-Kagan and Christopher Church
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Education and Information Studies, Columbia Law School and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 211 (239,324)
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A Quiet Revolution: How Judicial Discipline Essentially Eliminated Foster Care and Nearly Went Unnoticed

Columbia Journal of Race and Law, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2022
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Aug 2022
Melissa Carter, Christopher Church and Vivek Sankaran
Emory University School of Law, Emory University School of Law and University of Michigan
Downloads 70 (540,645)
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foster care, child welfare, family regulation, family separation, child removal, CPS, family court, juvenile court

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A Cure Worse than the Disease? The Impact of Removal on Children and their Families

Marquette Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 4, 2019
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Sep 2022
Vivek Sankaran, Christopher Church and Monique Mitchell
University of Michigan, Emory University School of Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 54 (615,057)

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child welfare, CPS, removal, trauma, foster care, family separation, family regulation, juvenile court, family court

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Easy Come, Easy Go: The Plight of Children Who Spend Less than Thirty Days in Foster Care

19 U. Pa. J. L. & Soc. Change 207 (2017)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Vivek S. Sankaran and Christopher Church
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Law School and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 28 (782,462)

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child welfare, foster care, data analysis, family separation, child separation, child protection, CPS, AFCARS

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The New Orleans Transformation: Foster Care as a Rare, Time-Limited Intervention

27 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 417 (2023).
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Jun 2023
Columbia Law School, Emory University School of Law, Emory University School of Law, University of Michigan and Independent
Downloads 22 (832,520)

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children, family court, foster care

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Rethinking Foster Care: Why Our Current Approach to Child Welfare Has Failed

73 SMU L. Rev. F. 123 (2020)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Apr 2023
Vivek Sankaran and Christopher Church
University of Michigan and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 12 (926,747)

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In Search of a Silver Bullet: Child Welfare's Embrace of Predictive Analytics

68 Juv. & Fam. Ct. J. 67 (2017)
Posted: 10 Oct 2018
Christopher Church and Amanda J. Fairchild
Emory University School of Law and University of South Carolina

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child welfare, foster care, data analysis, predictive analytics, predictive modeling, child protection, CPS