Judicial Oppression of Child Rights in Democratic States and by International Human Rights Bodies

The book analyzes in depth selected contemporary U.S., Canadian and European landmark and other cases illustrating the nature and impact of the legal regime that undermines child human rights empowerment in many Westerm democracies. The objectives in writing this book are to (i) encourage a re-evaluation of the legal regime that fosters the erosion of the notion of children as autonomous holders of fundamental human rights and not but subjects with weak derivative rights stemming from parental or family rights; (ii) highlight the courts' proper role in a democracy of protecting child and youth human rights empowerment and to (iii) contribute to fostering an evolution in the historical notion of the court's patris patriae doctrine as including the protection and strengthening of child autonomous fundamental human rights and child empowerment. Ultimately then the book highlights through the child rights domain the significant role the courts must and should play in strengthening democratic values and principles.

Analyzes in depth selected contemporary U.S., Canadian and European landmark and other selected child human rights cases Takes a comparative law and interdisciplinary approach relying on legal, historical, sociological, education views Examines the contemporary suppression through the courts in Western States of child human rights empowerment

Autorentext

Dr. Sonja Grover graduated with her doctorate from University of Toronto in 1976. She is an associate editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. She has published 19 law books with leading academic law publishers, single edited 5 special issues of the International Journal of Human Rights and for an additional special issue of the IJHR served as co-editor and has published over 70 law and interdisciplinary human rights articles in prestigious peer reviewed international law and interdisciplinary human rights journals since 2001.

Inhalt

1. The Resistance of International Human Rights Bodies to Child Climate Political Activism.- 2. The Legacy of Colonialism in the Contemporary Application of Parens Patraie.- 3. Litigating the Child's Bodily and Psychological Autonomy.- 4. The State Imposing Jurisdictional Limits on Parens Patriae Obligations to its Child National.- 5. Rethinking Parens Patriae.