David S. Tanenhaus & William Bush
David S. Tanenhaus is the James E. Rogers
Professor of History and Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University
of Nevada–Las Vegas (UNLV). William Bush is a Visiting Professor of History in
Residence at UNLV.
Articles by this Author
Toward a History of Children as Witnesses
- By David S. Tanenhaus & William Bush
- Published 10/6/2007
- Volume 82, Issue 4
Professors David Tanenhaus and William Bush provide
a fascinating and vital historical overview of children on the witness stand.
Their brief essay, Toward a History of
Children as Witnesses, presents an invaluable summary of attitudes toward
children in general, and child witnesses in particular. Their overview aptly
argues for recognizing nuance and multiple threads, rather than searching for
one fixed and certain historical truth about child witnesses. Placing the issue
of children in a larger historical and philosophical context, their essay also
debunks false assumptions about the nature of children's rights and conceptions
of childhood as linear or progressing to more responsibility, freedom, and
autonomy.
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