Publications

• Madelyn Milchman, Bob Geffner, Joan S. Meier. Ideology and Rhetoric Replace Science and Reason in Some Parental Alienation Literature and Advocacy, A Critique, 58:2 Family Court Review 340 (2020)
   

• Madelyn Milchman, Bob Geffner, Joan S. Meier. Putting Science and Reasoning Back Into the “Parental Alienation” Discussion: Reply to Bernet, Robb, Lorandos, and Garber, 58:2 Family Court Review 375 (2020) 
   

• Meier, Joan S. U.S. child custody outcomes in cases involving parental alienation and abuse allegations: what do the data show? (2020).Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 42:1, 92-105
   

• Meier, Joan S., Dickson, Sean, O'Sullivan, Chris, Rosen, Leora and Hayes, Jeffrey, Child Custody Outcomes in Cases Involving Parental Alienation and Abuse Allegations, final report to the National Institute of Justice (2019), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2019-56, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-56.
   

• Meier, Joan S. and Dickson, Sean. Mapping Gender: Shedding Empirical Light on Family Courts’ Treatment of Cases Involving Abuse and Alienation, (2017)
   

• Joan S. Meier. Dangerous Liaisons: A Domestic Violence Typology in Custody Litigation, 70 Rutgers U.L. Rev. 115 (2017)
   

• Joan S. Meier. Teaching Lawyering With Heart in the George Washington University Law School Domestic Violence Project, Violence Against Women 1–12 (2017)
   

• Meier, J. Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation: Research Reviews, (2013) at www.vawnet.org. 
   

• 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).