This Commentary is a fully up-to-date, solid legal work on children's rights. It offers a
contemporary legal perspective on the inherently interdisciplinary field of children's rights. It …

Children's rights law is a relatively young but rapidly developing discipline. The UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child, the field's core legal instrument, is the most widely …

It may be fair to say that the legal discipline has appropriated a substantial part of children's
rights scholarship. Legal literature is mostly thematic, ie addressing a certain issue or right …

Numerous definitions, theses and legal interpretations of children's rights are indicative of
the complex philosophical, theoretical and cultural tensions nuanced in the United Nations …

More has been written about children, childhood and children's rights in the last 20 years
than in the rest of history. There are more university courses focusing on children now than …

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, passed in 1989, was the first universal treaty
dedicated solely to the promotion and protection of the interests of children. In its first decade …

The history of children's rights unfolds in several stages. During the long period in which
most people lived in agricultural societies-ranging from early civilizations in the Middle East …

This volume is in part intended to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child. We are now a generation on from its formulation, and …

Over the last few decades, children's rights have assumed a central position in a wide
variety of disciplines and policies. More than 25 years after the adoption of the UN …

Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed
philosophical examination of children's rights. David Archard provides a clear and …