Marsha Garrison
Articles & Essays
The Invisible Prison: Pathways and Prevention, 95 Notre Dame Law Review1439 (2020) (with Margaret Brinig)
BrooklynWorksGetting Blood from Stones: Results and Policy Implications of an Empirical Investigation of Child Support Practice in St. Joseph County, Indiana Paternity Actions, 56 Family Court Review 521 (2018) (with Margaret Brinig)
SSRNFostering Family-Law Norms through Educational Initiatives, 27 Child and Family Law Quarterly 261 (2015)
HeinOnlineWhat’s Fair in Divorce Property Distribution? Cross-National Perspectives from Survey Evidence, 72 Louisiana Law Review 57 (2011)
BrooklynWorksWhy Has the United States Failed to Ratify the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child?, in “Reflections on Children's Rights”: Marginalized Identities in the Discourse(s) of Justice (Polymetrica International, 2011)
Nonmarital Cohabitation: Social Revolution and Legal Regulation, 42 Family Law Quarterly 309 (2008)
BrooklynWorksReviving Marriage: Could We? Should We?, 10 Journal of Law & Family Studies 279 (2008) (reprinted in part in Schneder & Brinig, An Invitation to Family Law (West, 3d ed. 2006))
BrooklynWorksPromoting Cooperative Parenting: Programs and Prospects, 9 Journal of Law & Family Studies 265 (2007)
BrooklynWorks SSRNReforming Divorce: What's Needed and What's Not, 27 Pace Law Review 921 (2007)
BrooklynWorksThe Decline of Formal Marriage: Inevitable or Reversible?, 41 Family Law Quarterly 491 (2007)
BrooklynWorksThe Empire of Illness: Competence and Coercion in Health-Care Decision Making, 49 William & Mary Law Review 781 (2007)
BrooklynWorks SSRNIs Consent Necessary? An Evaluation of the Emerging Law of Cohabitant Obligation, 52 UCLA Law Review 1 (2005)
BrooklynWorksReforming Child Protection: A Public Health Perspective, 12 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 590 (2005)
BrooklynWorksThe Law of Bioethics: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (West 3d ed. 2015, 2d ed. 2009, 1st ed, 2003) (with C. E. Schneider)
Autonomy or Community? An Evaluation of Two Models of Parental Obligation, 86 California Law Review 41 (1998) (reprinted in part in An Invitation to Family Law: Principles, Process, and Perspectives (West, 2d ed. 2000))
BrooklynWorksLaw Making for Baby Making: An Interpretive Approach to the Determination of Legal Parentage, 113 Harvard Law Review 835 (2000) (reprinted in part in An Invitation to Family Law (West, 2d ed. 2000) and in The Law of Bioethics: Individual Autonomy and Social Regulation (West, 2002))
BrooklynWorksChild Support Policy: Guidelines and Goals, 33 Family Law Quarterly 157 (1999) (reprinted in part in Family Law: Cases, Comments, Questions (West, 5th ed. 2004))
BrooklynWorksThe Technological Family: What's New and What's Not, 33 Family Law Quarterly 691 (1999)
HeinOnline SSRN"Toward a Contractarian Account of Family Governance, 1998 Utah Law Review 241 (1998)
BrooklynWorksHow Do Judges Decide Divorce Cases?: An Empirical Analysis of Discretionary Decision Making, 74 North Carolina Law Review 401 (1996) (reprinted in part in Family Law in Action: A Reader (Lexis 1999) and in Woman's Law (Fred B Rothman & Co., 2000))
BrooklynWorksParents' Rights vs. Children's Interests: The Case of the Foster Child, 22 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 371 (1996) (reprinted in part in Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers, Inc., 1998)
BrooklynWorksSucceeding in Law School: A Comparison of Women's Experiences at Brooklyn Law School and the University of Pennsylvania, 3 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 515 (1996) (with B. Tomko and I. Yip)
BrooklynWorks"Child Support and Children's Poverty," 28 Fam. L.Q. 475 (1994) (reviewing A.H. Beller and J.W. Graham, Small Change: The Economics of Child Support (1993) and D.J. Hernandez, America's Children: Resources from Family, Government and the Economy (1993))
HeinOnlineThe Economic Consequences of Divorce, 32 Family & Conciliation Courts Review 10 (1994) )reprinted in part in Cases and Materials on Family Law (L. Harris et al. eds., Aspen Law & Business, 1996)
Good Intentions Gone Awry: The Impact of New York's Equitable Distribution Law on Divorce Outcomes, 57 Brooklyn Law Review 621 (1991)
BrooklynWorksThe Economics of Divorce: Changing Rules, Changing Results in Divorce Reform at the Crossroads (Yale University Press, 1990)
Surrogate Parenting: What Should Legislatures Do?, 22 Family Law Quarterly (1988)
BrooklynWorksChild Welfare Decisionmaking: In Search of the Least Drastic Alternative, 75 Georgetown Law Journal 1745 (1987)
BrooklynWorksMarriage: The Status of Contract. An Essay on Weitzman's The Marriage Contract, 131 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1039 (1983)
BrooklynWorksWhy Terminate Parental Rights, 35 Stanford Law Review 423 (1983) (reprinted in part in Child, Family and State: Problems and Materials on Children and the Law (Aspen Publishers, 3d ed. 1995)
BrooklynWorksA New Look at Little Hans, 65 Psychoanalytic Review 523 (1978)
Books
Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families (editor with E.S. Scott, Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Family Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions (West, 6th ed. 2007, 5th ed. 2003, 4th ed. 1998) (with others)
Contributions to Books
Let’s Get Married? American Perspectives on Matrimony in the 21st Century in Family Law in Britain and America in the New Century (J. Eekelaar ed., Brill, 2016)
Delegalizing Family Law, in Family Law: Universalities and Singularities (Margaret P. Brinig, ed. 2015)
It’s My Body, and I’ll Do What I Want To: The American Perspective on Decision Making about the Body, in Les principes des corps humain dans le biomedicine (Brigitte Feuillet-Liger ed. 2015)
Cohabitant Obligations: Contract vs. Status, in The Future of Family Property in Europe (Intersentia, 2011)
Marriage Matters: What’s Wrong with the ALI’s Domestic Partnership Proposal, in Perspectives on the Principles of Family Dissolution: Critique of the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (R.F. Wilson ed. Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Child Support Guideline Review: Problems and Prospects, in The International Survey of Family Law (A. Bainham ed., Jordan Publishing, 2001)
The Goals and Limits of Child Support Policy, in Child Support: The Next Frontier (University of Michigan Press, 2000)
Other
N.Y. State Exec. Adv. Comm. on Sentencing, Crime and Punishment in New York: An Inquiry into Sentencing and the Criminal Justice System: Report to Governor Hugh L. Carey 1979 (with D. Beier and S. Landers)