Children's rights

Alderson, P., Young Children’s Rights, 2nd edn (London: Jessica Kingsley, 2008)

Alston, P., Parker, S., and Seymour, J. (eds), Children, Rights and the Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)

Archard, D., Children Rights and Childhood (London: Routledge, 2004)

Bainham, A., ‘The Balance of Power in Family Decisions’ (1986) 45(2) Cambridge Law Journal 262

Bainham, A., ‘The Judge and the Competent Minor’ (1992) 108 Law Quarterly Review 194

Bridgeman, J., ‘Old Enough to Know Best?’ (1993) 13 Legal Studies 69

Cave, E., ‘Goodbye Gillick? Problems with the Concept of Child Competence’ (2014) 34(1) Legal Studies 103–22

Cave, E. and Wallbank, J., ‘Minors’ Capacity to Refuse Treatment: A Reply to Gilmore and Herring’ [2012] Medical Law Review 423

Douglas, G., ‘The Retreat from Gillick’ (1992) 55 Modern Law Review 569

Eekelaar, J., ‘The Emergence of Children’s Rights’ (1986) 6 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 161

Eekelaar, J., ‘White Coats or Flak Jackets? Doctors, Children and the Courts—Again’ (1993) 109 LQR 182

Ferguson, L., ‘Not Merely Rights for Children but Children’s Rights: The Theory Gap and the Assumption of the Importance of Children’s Rights’ (2013) 21 International Journal of Children’s Rights 177–208.

Fortin, J., Children’s Rights and the Developing Law, 3rd edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Fortin, J., ‘The Gillick Decision—Not Just A High-Water Mark’ in S. Gilmore, J. Herring, and R. Probert (eds), Landmark Cases in Family Law (Oxford: Hart, 2011), pp 199–23

Franklin, B. (ed), The New Handbook of Children’s Rights Comparative Policy and Practice (London: Routledge, 2002)

Freeman, M. D. A., The Rights and the Wrongs of Children (London: Francis Pinter, 1983)

Freeman, M. D. A., The Moral Status of Children: Essays on the Rights of the Child (The Hague: Martinhus Nijhoff, 1997)

Gilmore, S., ‘The Limits of Parental Responsibility’ in R. Probert, S. Gilmore, and J. Herring, Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility (Oxford: Hart, 2009)

Gilmore, S. and Herring, J., ‘ “No” is the Hardest Word: Consent and Children’s Autonomy’ [2011] Child and Family Law Quarterly 3

Gilmore, S. and Herring, J., ‘Children’s Refusal of Treatment: The Debate Continues’ [2012] Family Law 973

Lowe, N. and Juss, S., ‘Medical Treatment—Pragmatism and the Search for Principle’ (1993) 56 Modern Law Review 865

MacLEOD, C. M., ‘Are Children’s Rights Important?’, in BRAKE, E. and FERGUSON, L. (Eds), Philosophical Foundations of Children’s and Family Law (Oxford, OUP, 2018), ch 9, pp 191 – 208.

Roche, J., ‘Children’s Rights: In the Name of the Child’ [1995] Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 281

Stalford, H., Hollingsworth K. and Gilmore, S. (Eds), Children’s Rights Judgments: From Academic Vision to New Practice (Oxford, Hart Bloomsbury, 2017).

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