Through his best-selling novels, Mid-South native John Grisham has shaped the way America views the legal profession and its place in the South -- and in Memphis.
In "The Client: How States Are Profiting from the Child's Right to Protection," Texas Tech University School of Law Professor DeLeith Duke Gossett discusses the tension between federal legislation designed to remove children from bad domestic situations by placing them in foster care, and the social policy goal of keeping nuclear families together.
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