Rate My Professor Sacha Coupet

Coupet’s scholarship centers on the regulation of families, addressing privileges, rights, and interests of parents, children, and caregivers, with emphasis on child and family welfare policy, kinship care, children’s rights, juvenile justice, and therapeutic jurisprudence. Her publications include the co-edited book Children, Sexuality and the Law (NYU Press, 2015); articles such as “What Price Liberty? The Search for Equality for Kinship-Caregiving Families,” 2013 Mich. St. L. Rev. 1249; “Ain’t I a Parent?: Exclusion of Kinship Caregivers from the Debate over Expansions of Parenthood,” 34 NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change 595 (2010); “The Subtlety of State Action in Privatized Child Welfare Services,” 11 Chapman L. Rev. 85 (2007); and more recent works like “The Ontological Expansiveness of ‘Parental Rights’ Rhetoric in K–12 Public Schools” (2024) and “Singing in the Key of Dobbs: Historical Inquiries into the Institutionalization of Support for Families and Children” (2023). She co-founded the AALS Section on Children & the Law in 2006, served as its Chair (2009-2010), and is Chair-Elect of the AALS Section on Poverty Law. Coupet led the task force drafting Loyola Law’s anti-racist mission statement in 2020, promoting racial justice and diversity in legal education. She has presented nationally on family law, child welfare, LGBTQ youth, and inclusion in law practice, incorporating social science into legal policy.