Michael S. Wald
Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, Emeritus

Publications & Cases

Recent Publications

Michael S. Wald, Herma Hill Kay, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Sean M. SeLegue, Nicholas O. Kennedy, Brief of Amici Curiae California Professors of Family Law in Support of Respondents, No. 12-144 in the Supreme Court of the United States (February 28, 2013)
Michael S. Wald, Beyond Maltreatment: Developing Support for Children in Multiproblem Families, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2205471 (2013).
Michael S. Wald, Taking the Wrong Message: The Legacy of the Identification of the Battered-Child Syndrome," in C. Henry Kempe: A 50 Year Legacy to the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect, Richard D. Krugman and Jill E. Korbin, eds., New York: Springer, 2013.
Michael Wald, Big Government, Better-Off Kids: The Case for Spending a Lot of Money on Programs that Help Children, Slate, May 14, 2012.
Herma Hill Kay, Michael S. Wald, Brief of Amici Curiae California Professors of Family Law in Support of Appellees, Kristin Perry, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Arnold Schwarzenegger, et al., Defandants, and Proposition 8 Official Proponents Dennis Hollingsworth, et al., Defendant-Intervenors-Appellants, Case No. 10-16696, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (October 25, 2010).
Michael S. Wald, Disconnected Youth in San Francisco, The Mayor's Task Force on Transitional Youth, August 2007.
Michael S. Wald, Adults' Sexual Orientation and State Determinations Regarding Placement of Children, 40 Family Law Quarterly 385 (2006).
Michael S. Wald, Adult's Sexual Orientation and State Determinations Regarding Placement of Children, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 920670 (2006).
Michael S. Wald, Closing Remarks: Where Do We Go from Here? Using Knowledge to Improve Policy and Practice for Disconnected Youth,(Symposium on Law and Adolescence), 79 Temple Law Review 607 (2006).
Michael S. Wald. Forward In On Your Own Without A Net: The Transition To Adulthood For Vulnerable Populations, D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan and Gretchen R. Ruth, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Michael S. Wald, Children, Rights of: Cultural Concerns, in, 3 International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, editors. 2001. p. 1720-1725.
Michael S. Wald, Same Sex Couple Marriage: A Family Policy Perspective, 9 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 291-344 (2001).
Michael S. Wald, Comment: Moving Forward, Some Thoughts on Strategies, 21 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 472-475 (2000).
Michael S. Wald, Same-Sex Couples: Marriage, Families, and Children: An Analysis of Proposition 22, The Knight Initiative, Stanford: The Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender and The Stanford Center on Adolescence, 1999. 28 pages.
Michael S. Wald, Same-Sex Couples: Marriage, Families and Children, Stanford Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 6 (1999). 39 pages.
Michael S. Wald, Symposium Introduction: Welfare Reform: Economic Security for the Next Century, 9 Stanford Law and Policy Review 4 (1998).
Michael S. Wald, Substance Abuse by Mothers and Termination of Parental Rights, in, When Drug Addicts Have Children: Reorienting Child Welfare's Response. Douglas J. Besharov, editor. Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America: American Enterprise Institute, 1994.
Michael S. Wald, Child Custody and Sexual Orientation, in, Debating Children's Lives: Current Controversies on Children and Adolescents. Mary Ann Mason and Eileen Gambrill, editors. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994. p. 18-35.
Michael S. Wald, Welfare Reform and Children's Well-Being: An Analysis of Proposition 165, Stanford Center for the Study of Families, Children, and Youth. 1992. 49 pages.
Michael S. Wald, Judicial Training Materials on Child Custody and Visitation: Facilitators' Manual, Washington, D.C.: Women Judges' Fund for Justice, 1991.

mwald@stanford.edu

650 723.0322

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

BA Cornell University 1963
MA (political science) Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
LLB Yale Law School 1967

Expertise:

Children and the Law
Education Law
Public Interest Practice