Publications

• Meier, J., Mapping Gender: Shedding Empirical Light on Family Courts’ Treatment of Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation, (2017)
• Meier, J., Research Summary of Data on False Allegations of Abuse in Custody Context, (2020). To read the article, please click here.
• Meier, J., Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Research Reviews, (2013) at www.vawnet.org. To read the article, please click here.
• Meier, J., "Getting Real about Abuse and Alienation: A Critique of Drozd and Olesen's Decision Tree," Journal of Child Custody, 7:219-252 (2010)
• ‍Meier, J.  "The Misuse of Parental Alienation Syndrome in Custody Suits," Violence Against Women in Families and Relationships (Evan Stark and Eve Buzawa, eds., 2009).  For the table of contents of the volume in which this article appears, please click here.
• Meier, J., “A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation,” Journal of Child Custody, Symposium on Domestic Violence and Custody, Journal of Child Custody, 6:232-257 (2009).
• Meier, J., "Davis/Hammon, Domestic Violence, and the Supreme Court: The Case for Cautious Optimism," 105 Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions 22 (2006)
• Meier, J., "Domestic Violence, Child Custody and Child Protection: Understanding Judicial Resistance and Imagining the Solutions", 11 A.U. J. Gender, Social Policy & the Law 657 (2003)
• Meier, J., "Domestic Violence, Character and Social Change in the Welfare Reform Debate," Law and Policy 19:2, 205-263 (April 1997)(Symposium on Domestic Violence and Welfare)
• "Notes From the Underground: Integrating Psychological and Legal Perspectives on Domestic Violence in Theory and Practice" 21 Hofstra L. Rev. 1295 (Symposium)(Summer 1993)
• "The 'Right' to a Disinterested Prosecutor of Criminal Contempt: Unpacking Public and Private Interests," 70 Washington Law Quarterly 85 (Spring 1992)
• Please click here to see the Social Science Reaserch Network's author page for Joan Meier.
• Schroth, Sara "Due Process and Custody Investigation Reports; A Parent's Right to Read and Challenge."
• Research Summary, Rates at which Accused and Adjudicated Batterers Receive Sole or Joint Custody
• Research Summary, Research Indicating that the Majority of Cases that go to Court as "high conflict" Contested Custody Cases have a History of Domestic Violence
• Research Summary, Scientific and Professional Rejections of Parental Alienation Syndrome
• PAS Bibliography Complied by Joan Meier.
• Memorandum About the Use of Monetary Sanctions to Restrict Parental Access
• Memorandum About Due Process in Custody Cases
• Example of a "Good" Petition for Certiorari

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