Treated Like a Child - (Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children's Rights) (Hardcover)

About the Book

This anthology brings together leading academics in the field of children's rights studies with the aim of drawing attention to and analysing the potential to progress children's rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.

Book Synopsis

One of the core principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is non-discrimination. However, little attention has been given to how this principle can protect children from discrimination because of age and childhood.
This anthology brings together experts from children's rights studies to explore both overall issues related to discrimination against children, as well as non-legitimate differential treatment in specific contexts - including climate crisis, child labour, migration, healthcare, and child protection. Attention is drawn to the potential to advance children's rights in the framework of nondiscrimination in relation to children as a group.

About the Author

Aoife Daly, Professor of Law, University College Cork. She is author of Children, Autonomy and the Courts (Brill Nijhoff, 2018) and has a European Research Council grant to research child/youth climate justice around the world.

Pernilla Leviner, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child at Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within and across the fields of public and family law and focus primarily on child protection and children's rights.

Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University and Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Her research encompasses the fields of migration law, children's human rights, and the relationship between national and international law.