Cynthia Godsoe

Parenting as a Crime, ___ California Law Review Online ___ (forthcoming 2025) (with Shanta Trivedi)

Kinship Care and Adoption Myopia, 76 Rutgers University Law Review 728 (2024)

Racing and Erasing Parental Rights, 104 Boston University Law Review 2061 (2024) 

Disrupting Carceral Logic in Family Policing, 121 Michigan Law Review 939 (2023)

Prosecutorial Mutiny, 60 American Criminal Law Review 1403 (2023) (with Maybell Romero)

Can You Be a Legal Ethics Scholar and Have Guts?, 35 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 429 (2022) (with Abbe Smith & Ellen Yaroshefsky)

Divest, Invest, & Mutual Aid, 12 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 601 (2022)

The Victim/Offender Overlap and Criminal System Reform, 87 Brooklyn Law Review 1319 (2022)

The Place of the Prosecutor in Abolitionist Praxis, 69 UCLA Law Review 164 (2022)

#Metoo and the Myth of the Juvenile Sex Offender, 17 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 335 (2020)

Participatory Defense: Humanizing the Accused and Ceding Control to the Client, 69 Mercer Law Review 715 (2018)

Redefining Parental Rights: The Case of Corporal Punishment, 32 Constitutional Commentary 281 (2017)

Redrawing the Boundaries of Relational Crime, 69 Alabama Law Review 169 (2017)

Recasting Vagueness: The Case of Teen Sex Statutes, 74 Washington and Lee Law Review 173 (2017)

Perfect Plaintiffs, 125 Yale Law Journal Forum 136 (2015)

Marriage Equality and the New Maternalism, 6 California Law Review Circuit 145 (2015)

Adopting the Gay Family, 90 Tulane Law Review 311 (2015)

Punishment as Protection, 52 Houston Law Review 1313 (2015)

Contempt, Status and The Criminalization of Non-Conforming Girls, 35 Cardozo Law Review 1091 (2014)

Permanency Puzzle, 2013 Michigan State Law Review 1113 (2013) (invited symposium piece)

Just Intervention: Differential Response in Child Protection, 21 Journal of Law & Policy 73 (2012).

Parsing Parenthood, 17 Lewis & Clark Law Review 113 (2013).

Adolescents in Society: Their Evolving Legal Status, Introduction, 20 Journal of Law & Policy 1 (2012)

All in the Family: Towards a New Representational Model for Parents and Children, 24 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (2011)

The Legal Status of Pregnant and Parenting Youth in Foster Care, 17 University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 1 (2006) (with E. Stotland)

Subsidized Guardianship: A New Permanancy Option, 23 Children’s Rights Law Journal 3 (2003)

Caught Between Two Systems: How Exceptional Children in Out-of-Home Care are Denied Equality in Education, 19 Yale Law and Policy Review 81 (2001)

Child Care for Families Leaving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Clearinghouse Review (2001) (with others)

Book Review: Bodies of Law by Alan Hyde (Princeton University Press, 1997), 21 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 319 (1998)

The Ban on Welfare for Felony Drug Offenders: Giving a New Meaning to 'Life Sentence', 13 Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 257 (1998)

Parental Love and Purposeful Violence, in The Politicization of Safety: Critical Perspectives on Domestic Violence Responses (Jane Stoever, ed., 2019)

Rewrite of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Opinion on Statutory Rape in Michael M. v. Sonoma Cty in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court 257 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Op-Ed: Blame Poverty, Not Parents, National Law Journal (Apr. 17, 2012)

Op-Ed: Age Matters, National Law Journal (Apr. 4, 2011)

Op-Ed: Restoring Families, National Law Journal (May 31, 2010)

Op-Ed: Finally, There's a Safe Harbor, National Law Journal (Nov. 10, 2008)