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A Magna Carta for Children?
Rethinking Children's Rights
The Hamlyn Lectures Series
Author: Freeman Michael
This book highlights the importance of law, policy and rights in improving children's lives, combining historical analysis and human rights law.
Language: EnglishSubject for A Magna Carta for Children?:
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A Magna Carta for Children?
Publication date: 10-2020
586 p. · 13.7x21.6 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2020
586 p. · 13.7x21.6 cm · Paperback
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A Magna Carta for Children?
Publication date: 10-2020
584 p. · 14.2x22.2 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 10-2020
584 p. · 14.2x22.2 cm · Hardback
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The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world, yet everyday children still face poverty, violence, war, disease and disaster. Are the rights we currently afford to children enough? Combining historical analysis with international human rights law, Michael Freeman considers early legal and philosophical theories on children's rights before exploring the impact and limitations of the Convention itself. He also suggests ways that we may rethink children's rights in the future as well as identifying key areas for reform. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience who are interested in children's rights, children's studies, the history of childhood, international human rights, and comparative family law. It is a crucial restatement of the importance of law, policy and rights in improving children's lives.
Prelude; Part I. 1. Are children human?; 2. Interlude – taking a deep breath; Part II. Even Lawyers Were Children Once: 3. The Convention on the Rights of the Child and its principles; 4. The Convention – norms and themes; 5. Enforcing children's rights; 6. Criticisms of the Convention; 7. Beyond the Convention; 8. Interlude – what we can learn from the sociology of childhood; 9. Childhoods and rights; 10. Regional children's rights; 11. Child friendly justice; 12. The world 25 years on: new issues and responses; Part III. A Magna Carta for Children: 13. Rethinking children's rights; 14. Alternatives to rights – or are they?; 15. A Magna Carta for children?; 16. Rethinking principles and concepts; 17. Conclusion; 18. Coda – a child of our time.
Michael Freeman is Professor Emeritus of English Law at University College London Faculty of Laws. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights, Editor of the International Journal of Law in Context, General Editor of International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law and of the International Library of Family, Society and Law and former Editor of the Annual Survey of Family Law. He has published in the areas of Family Law; Child Law and Policy; Children's Rights; Medicine; Ethics and the Law and Medical Law; Jurisprudence and Legal Theory; and other areas of law and policy.
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