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The article begins with a due process analysis concluding that children are legally entitled to counsel and continues by presenting examples of federal and state legislation, court decisions, and public policy arguments that support this right. The article then goes a step further to advocate for a traditional, client‐directed model of representation, which empowers children and leads to better judicial decision making. Finally, the article discusses the impact of high caseloads and lack of training on attorney performance. This article serves as an important addition to the academic literature examining the need for and role of the child's attorney in dependency proceedings.

In this piece I aim to provide some personal, professional and, at times, provocative insights into the negotiation of identities within higher education. I seek to combine classed, gendered and sexual identities and inequalities as significant to the experience of university. Many feminist writers have pointed to the structuring of education as it solidifies, rather than challenges, social divisions. In referencing such scholarly research, and in combining this with personal positioning and tension, I seek to highlight the complexities of 'coming out' in relation sexuality, gender and class, where the constrictions of academia often means that there is little space to do so.

This book is largely based on the presentations made during ECOLINGUA DAY, an event organised at the University of Trieste in order to hear papers illustrating the results of a number of the varoius research sub-projects comprising the PRIN project ECOLINGUA, financed by the Italian Ministry for the University, and brought to conclusion by the five university units involved (The Catholic University of Milan, the University of Padua, the University of Pavia 1 & 2, the University of Trieste). Contributions range from corpus-based studies relating to European Union documents and to films, to surveys into the language used in subtitles, authorial presence in psychology articles, academic pratices in linguistics and grammatical usage. Language learning and the teaching of phonetics through corpora are also included.

Examining recent momentous changes in rural Vietnam, this article contends that many rural development policies implemented by the state and international development agencies adopt criteria of progress that are inappropriate to the situation and needs of rural people. However, far from being left entirely bereft by the failures of official development schemes, rural people in Vietnam have access to an alternative set of resources and strategies to improve their lives. Using examples from the Mekong Delta, the article demonstrates that these resources and strategies help rural people realize a quality of life that is engaged, modern, and viable.