Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Children, Rights and the Law: Edited by Philip Alston, Stephen Parker and John Seymour (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992, i-xiv and 268 pp)

Children, Rights and the Law: Edited by Philip Alston, Stephen Parker and John Seymour (Clarendon... BOOK REVIEWS Edited by Hilary Charlesworth and Judith Gardam Children, Rights and the Law Edited by Philip Alston, Stephen Parker and John Seymour (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992, i-xiv and 268 pp) There has been much debate in Australia about the potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to bring about substantive change to the lives of Australian children. This debate has been mirrored elsewhere in the world and many observers of the United Nations are monitoring the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, established by the Convention, to determine what impact it will have on the actions of States parties as well as the "jurisprudence" of children's rights. The view taken by the editors of this volume and the contributors to it is that there is a need for some of the discussion on children's rights to focus on the philosophical assumptions that underpin any formulation or conception of rights in order "to develop a deeper appreciation of the normative content of the Convention" (p viii). At one level the premise is sound. The normative content a person or a group such as the Committee on the Rights of the Child ascribe http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Australian Year Book of International Law Online Brill

Children, Rights and the Law: Edited by Philip Alston, Stephen Parker and John Seymour (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992, i-xiv and 268 pp)

Download PDF
6 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/children-rights-and-the-law-edited-by-philip-alston-stephen-parker-and-gxqtR47OXH

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0084-7658
DOI
10.1163/26660229-014-01-900000009
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS Edited by Hilary Charlesworth and Judith Gardam Children, Rights and the Law Edited by Philip Alston, Stephen Parker and John Seymour (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992, i-xiv and 268 pp) There has been much debate in Australia about the potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to bring about substantive change to the lives of Australian children. This debate has been mirrored elsewhere in the world and many observers of the United Nations are monitoring the work of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, established by the Convention, to determine what impact it will have on the actions of States parties as well as the "jurisprudence" of children's rights. The view taken by the editors of this volume and the contributors to it is that there is a need for some of the discussion on children's rights to focus on the philosophical assumptions that underpin any formulation or conception of rights in order "to develop a deeper appreciation of the normative content of the Convention" (p viii). At one level the premise is sound. The normative content a person or a group such as the Committee on the Rights of the Child ascribe

Journal

The Australian Year Book of International Law Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1993

There are no references for this article.