Law and Childhood Studies

Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London and is the series editor for Current Legal Issues.

1. Introduction ; 2. A State of Imperfect Transformation: Law, Myth, and the Feminine in Outside Over There, Labyrinth, and Pan's Labyrinth ; 3. Towards a Sociology of Children's Rights ; 4. Why Judges Need to Know and Understand Childhood Studies ; 5. Courts and the Construction of Childhood: A New Way of Thinking ; 6. Childhood, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and Research: What Constitutes a 'Rights-Based' Approach? ; 7. Child-Led Organizations and the Advocacy of Adults: Experiences from Bangladesh and Nicaragua ; 8. Transforming Children's Human Rights - From Universal Claims to National Particularity ; 9. Modern African Childhoods: Does Law Matter? ; 10. The Age of Conflict: Rethinking Childhood, Law, and Age through the Israeli-Palestinian Case ; 11. Children's Participation in Court Proceedings when Parents Divorce or Separate: Legal Construction and Lived Experiences ; 12. Children's Consent and 'Assent' to Healthcare Research ; 13. Children and Young People as Moral and Legal Actors: Findings from Studies Conducted in Northern Italy ; 14. Rights-Based Restorative Justice in Canada: From Silence to Citizen ; 15. New Zealand Children and Young People's Perspectives on Relocation Following Parental Separation ; 16. Vulnerability, Children, and the Law ; 17. 'When the Kissing has to Stop': Children, Sexual Behaviour, and the Criminal Law ; 18. Tackling Cyber-Bullying from a Children's Rights Perspective ; 19. Exploring the Contested Role of Mandatory Reporting Laws in the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect ; 20. Domestic Violence, Contact, and the ECHR ; 21. Reframing the Practice of 'Son Preference' through the Millennium Development Goals ; 22. The Child's Right to Development ; 23. UNCRC's Performance of the Child As Developing ; 24. Minding the Gap? Children with Disabilities and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ; 25. 'Special' Treatment, 'Special' Rights: Children who Hear Voices or Doubly Diminished Initiative ; 26. The Child's Right to Privacy and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights ; 27. Foster Care Partnerships in Finland 1990-2010: From Social Task to Ensuring Better Market Share? ; 28. Parental Discipline, Criminal Laws, and Responsive Regulation ; 29. Litigating the Child's Rights to a Life Free of Violence: Seeking the Prohibition of Parental Physical Punishment of Children Through the Courts ; 30. Discipline and the Ethics of Care ; 31. Caring for Children: Risks and Responsibilities in the Law of Tort