Law and Childhood Studies: Current Legal Issues Volume 14

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at Univesity College London. Each year leading scholars from around the world gather to discuss the relationship between law and another discipline of thought. Each colloquium examines how the external discipline is conceived in legal thought and argument, how the law is pictured in that discipline, and analyses points of controversy in the use, and abuse, of extra-legal arguments within legal theory and practice. Law and Childhood Studies, the fourteenth volume in the Current Legal Issues series, offers an insight into the state of law and childhood studies scholarship today. Focussing on the inter-connections between the two disciplines, it addresses the key issues informing current debates.

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