Lois A. Weithorn

University of California Hastings College of the Law

Professor of Law

200 McAllister Street

San Francisco, CA 94102

United States

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Protecting Children from Exposure to Domestic Violence: The Use and Abuse of Child Maltreatment Statutes

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 53, No. 1, November 2001
Number of pages: 145 Posted: 07 May 2002
Lois A. Weithorn
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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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
University of California Hastings College of the Law and University of California Hastings College of the Law
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Providing Adolescents with Independent and Confidential Access to Childhood Vaccines: A Proposal to Lower the Age of Consent

Connecticut Law Review, Vol. 52, Forthcoming, UC Hastings Research Paper No. 344
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 17 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2019
Lois A. Weithorn and Dorit Rubinstein Reiss
University of California Hastings College of the Law and University of California Hastings College of the Law
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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
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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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
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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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
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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juvenile justice, mental health, child protection, children, family, deinstitutionalization

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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
University of California Hastings College of the 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
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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constitutional law, children and the law, science and the law

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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
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 13 May 2020
Lois A. Weithorn
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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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