Rachel E. Taylor (University of Oxford)

Fortin's Children's Rights and the Developing Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now fully revised and updated, this classic textbook is unique in its use of children's rights to evaluate law and policy affecting children across a broad range of areas in their lives. Comprehensive in scope, it features assessments of key topics including parenthood, education, child protection, child poverty and medical law.

Produktdetails

• Law in Context
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 4 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 792
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 169mm x 44mm
• Gewicht: 1400g
• ISBN-13: 9781108446938
• ISBN-10: 1108446930
• Artikelnr.: 68480731

Autorenporträt

Rachel E. Taylor is Fellow and Tutor in Law at Exeter College, Oxford and Associate Professor in Law at Oxford University. She writes widely on issues relating to children and family law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theoretical perspectives
2. International children's rights
3. Children's rights in domestic law
4. Children's rights within the family: parental rights and responsibilities
5. The child's right to identity
6. The child's right to respect for family life: the right to know and be brought up by parents
7. Parents' decisions and young children's health rights
8. The child's right to education: parental choice and plural values
9. Adolescent autonomy
10. Leaving home, rights to support and emancipation
11. Adolescent decision-making and health care
12. The child's right to participation in family proceedings
13. Children's rights and state responsibility: public authorities and poverty
14. The right to education: participation in school
15. The child's right to protection from harmful treatment
16. The child's right to protection in state care and to state accountability
17. Conclusion - themes and the way ahead.