Children’s Rights (5cr)

Objective

• know the basics of children’s rights law, along with the relevant terms and methodological issues
• know why children’s rights are important, and what linkages they have with other human rights
• apply children’s rights-related legislation to practical case studies
• recognize interpretations and methods commonly associated with the field

Content

International children’s rights framework, the most important international treaties relating to children’s rights, specific rights pertaining to children, selection of contemporary issues related to children’s rights protection

Qualifications

No prerequisites for international students. For degree students it is recommend that they have taken studies in law and welfare.

Materials

• Karin Arts, 'Twenty-Five Yyears of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Achievements and Challenges' (2014) 61(3) Netherlands International Law Review 267


• Sarah Trotter, 'The Child in European Human Rights Law' (2018) 81(3) The Modern Law Review 452


• Milka Sormunen, ‘Understanding the Best Interests of the Child as a Procedural Obligation: The Example of the European Court of Human Rights’ (2020) 20(4) Human Rights Law Review 745


• Partially: Ton Liefaard and Jaap Doek (eds), Litigating the Rights of the Child: The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Domestic and International Jurisprudence (Springer 2015)

Partially: Ziba Vaghri, 'Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child' (Springer 2022)

Further information

Lecture 1: 10 November (time to specified)
Lecture 2: 11 November
Lecture 3: 12 November
Lecture 4: 13 November
Examination 1: 24 November
Examination 2: 8 December

Course organized in autumn semester, lectures taught in 2-hour sessions.

Execution methods

Contact teaching 8 h, independent reading, examination

Accomplishment methods

Contact teaching 8 h, independent reading examination.