The Human Rights of Children: Selected Essays on Children's Rights (Nijhoff Law Specials, 105)

For decades, Professor Michael Freeman has without doubt been one of the world's most infuential scholars in international children's rights. His scholarship has been at the forefront of the field and has helped shape many of the developments within it. This collection offers the reader a thought-provoking snapshot of some of his most seminal essays, written and/or published over the past 30 years. Together they highlight above all the interdisciplinary nature of the issues he discusses. Legal doctrinal questions that make the case for recognising that children have rights are of course discussed. But aspects of moral and political philosophy are dealt with as well, in addition to, among other other disciplines, history, theology, psychology and antropology.

Michael Freeman is Professor Emeritus of English Law at University College, London. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights and former Editor of the International Journal of Law in Context, Issues in Law and Society, International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law and Current Legal Problems. He has published widely in the areas of family law, child law and policy, children's rights, medicine, ethics and the law and medical law, jurisprudence and legal theory.