Lois A. Weithorn

UC Law SF

Professor of Law

200 McAllister Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

11

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TOTAL CITATIONS

7

Scholarly Papers (11)

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domestic violence, child protection, child maltreatment, family law, children and families

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Responding to the Childhood Vaccination Crisis: Legal Frameworks and Tools in the Context of Parental Vaccine Refusal

63 Buffalo Law Review 881 (2015), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 136
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 07 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2016
Dorit Rubinstein Reiss and Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law, San Francisco and UC Law SF
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Providing Adolescents with Independent and Confidential Access to Childhood Vaccines: A Proposal to Lower the Age of Consent

52 Connecticut Law Review 772 (2020), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 344
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 17 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2020
Lois A. Weithorn and Dorit Rubinstein Reiss
UC Law SF and UC Law, San Francisco
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Developmental Neuroscience, Children's Relationships with Primary Caregivers, and Child Protection Policy Reform

63 Hastings Law Journal 1487 (2012), UC Hastings Research Paper No. 18
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 02 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2013
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF
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Can a Subsequent Change in Law Void a Marriage that Was Valid at its Inception? Considering the Legal Effect of Proposition 8 on California's Existing Same-Sex Marriages

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 60, 2009
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 28 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2012
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF
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The Intrusive State: Restrictions on Gender-Affirming Healthcare for Minors, Exceptions to the Doctrine of Parental Consent, and Reliance on Science and Medical Expertise

75 UC Law Journal 713 (2024), UC Law San Francisco Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 09 May 2024
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF
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Envisioning Second-Order Change in America's Responses to Troubled and Troublesome Youth

Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 4, 2005
Number of pages: 202 Posted: 28 Feb 2009
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF
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juvenile justice, mental health, child protection, children, family, deinstitutionalization

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Psychological Distress, Mental Disorder, and Assessment of Decisionmaking Capacity Under U.S. Medical Aid in Dying Statutes

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 71, No. 3, 2020, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 385
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 13 May 2020 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2021
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF
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medical aid in dying, physician aid in dying, end of life decisionmaking, treatment competence, treatment decisionmaking capacity, mental health, psychology and law

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A Constitutional Jurisprudence of Children's Vulnerability

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 69, No. 179, 2018, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 293
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 10 May 2018 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2018
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF
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constitutional law, children and the law, science and the law

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Conceptual Hurdles in the Application of Atkins v. Virginia

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 5, 2008
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Feb 2009
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF
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When Does a Minor's Legal Competence to Make Health Care Decisions Matter?

Pediatrics August 2020, 146 (Supplement 1), S25-S32, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 399
Posted: 05 Aug 2020
Lois A. Weithorn
UC Law SF

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decisional authority, minors, parental discretion