Children's Rights: New Issues, New Themes, New Perspectives

This collection of essays by a variety of scholars, compiled to celebrate the silver anniversary of The International Journal of Children’s Rights, builds on work already in the literature to reveal where we are now at and how the law concerned with children is reacting to new developments. New, or relatively new subject matter is explored, such as film classification, intersex genital mutilation, the right to development. Rights within the context of sport are given an airing. We are offered new perspectives on discipline, on the significance of “rights flowing downhill,” on the so-called “General Principles.“ The uses to which the CRC is put in legal reasoning in some legal systems is critically examined. Though not intended as an audit, the collection offers a fascinating image of where the field of children's right is at now, the progress that has been made, and what issues will require work in the future.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Do Rights Still Flow Downhill?  Katherine Hunt Federle Does Exactly What it Says on the Tin? A Critical Analysis and Alternative Conceptualisation of the So-called “General Principles” of the Convention on the Rights of the Child  Karl Hanson and Laura Lundy Common Criticisms of Children’s Rights and 25 Years of the ijcr  Priscilla Alderson Philosophy with Children: A Rights-based Approach to Deliberative Participation  Claire Cassidy The Role of Canada’s Child and Youth Advocates: A Social Constructionist Approach  Daniella Bendo and Richard C. Mitchell What is “Discipline” in the Age of Children’s Rights?  Joan E. Durrant and Ashley Stewart-Tufescu Developing the Right to Development  Noam Peleg Intersex Genital Mutilation – A Western Version offgm  Melinda Jones Norwegian Children’s Rights in Sport and Coaches’ Understanding of Talent  Jan Emil Ellingsen and Anne G. Danielsen Children’s Participation Rights in Film Classification Systems  Tim Covell Teaching and Learning Traditions in Children’s Human Rights Curriculum Emphases in Theory and Practice  Lotta Brantefors and Nina Thelander Stand up to Children’s Rights: An Exercise in Listening in English as a Foreign Language  Rigoberto Castillo, Natalia A. Gabalo and Natalia Segura Use of the uncrc in Family Law Cases in England and Wales  Stephen Gilmore Words Matter: Textual Abuse of Childhood in the English-Speaking World, and the Role of Language in the Continuing Denial of Children’s Rights  Bernadette J. Saunders Article 12 of the un Convention on the Rights of Children Where Have We Come from, Where Are We Now and Where to from Here?  Professor Mark Henaghan Tales of the Apocalypse: The Child’s Right to a Secure Climate  Anne McGillivray Index

About the Author :
Michael Freeman is Professor Emeritus of English Law at University College, London, Fellow of the British Academy, and a Barrister of Gray's Inn. He is the Founding Editor of The International Journal of Children's Rights and the author of The Rights and Wrongs of Children (1983), The Moral Status of Children (1997), and Children, their Families and the Law(1992) . He was the Editor of Current Legal Problems for many years and a Founding Editor of The International Journal of Law in Context. He has been selected to give the 2015 Hamlyn Lectures on Children's Rights. He also writes on medical issues and on legal theory; the 9th edition of his Introduction to Jurisprudence was published in 2014.