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Law & Childhood Studies Colloquium - 5 & 6 July 2010 at UCL

UCL Faculty of Laws Events

Monday, July 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM - Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM (BST)

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Law & Childhood Studies Colloquium - 5 & 6 July 2010 at UCL

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Welcome to the fifteenth UCL Current Legal Issues Interdisciplinary Colloquium, on Law & Childhood Studies.  The colloquium will be held at the UCL Faculty of Law in central London's Bloomsbury district on 5th& 6th July 2009.


The Programme 

DAY ONE: 5 July 2009
9.30  SESSION I:  
Judges need to know childhood studies to make better decisions for children
Mark Henaghan, University of Otago, New Zealand


Children at the intersection of Law, Church and State: Institutional child abuse in Ireland
Robert Van Krieken, University College Dublin

Modern African Childhoods: Does law matter?
Julia Sloth-Nielsen, University of the Western Cape

11:00 Break
11.30 SESSION II: 
Children, Sexual Offences and the Criminal Law
Heather Keating, University of Sussex


Litigating the Child's Right to a Life Free from Violence: Seeking the Prohibition of Parental Physical Punishment of Children Through the Courts

Aoife Nolan, Queen’s University Belfast

Constructing Categories within Childhood Studies: Legal and Ethical Implications of Ascriptions of cruelty, callous/unemotional conduct disorder and interventions for the prevention or treatment of psychopathy in children
Robin Mackenzie, University of Kent

12:45 Lunch
13:45 SESSION III:
Children's Consent and ‘Assent’ to Medical Research
Priscilla Alderson, Institute of Education, University of London


Children's Rights-Based Research: Assisting Children to (In)Formed Views

Laura Lundy, Queen’s University Belfast

14:35 Break
14:50 SESSION IV:
Children's Participation in Family Law Decisions Making: Rich Insights from Childhood Studies, New Challenges for Family Law
Anne Graham and Robyn Fitzgerald, Southern Cross University, Australia


Respecting Children's Rights to Physical Integrity: Banning Physical Punishment in New Zealand
Anne B Smith, University of Otago, New Zealand

Children's Participation in Court Proceedings when Parents Divorce or Separate: Legal Constructions and Lived Experiences in Scotland
Kay Tisdall and Fiona Morrison, University of Edinburgh

16:20 BREAK
16:40 SESSION V A:
The CRC and Development

Ashleigh Barnes, ANU College of Law


Children's Right to Development

Noam Peleg, UCL

The Age of Conflict: Socio-Legal Constructions of Childhood and Time in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Hedi Viterbo, LSE

SESSION V B:
Cyberbullying: Growing Up for Generation Y
Anne Cheung, University of Hong Kong


Children's Agency in New Zealand Family Law Proceedings

Nicola Taylor, University of Otago, New Zealand

18:00 PUBLIC LECTURE:
A State of Imperfect Transformation: Girls and Goblins in the 'Outside over There', 'Labyrinth'
and 'Pan's Labyrinth'

Anne McGillivray, University of Manitoba
19:00

Reception sponsored by BRILL, Leiden, Netherlands
Publishers of the International Journal of Children’s Rights

20:00 DAY ONE ENDS
 
DAY TWO: 6 JULY 2009
09:00 SESSION VI:
Revisiting 'Sociology of Childhood and Children's Rights': Can we learn more now?
Michael Freeman, UCL


Theorising Children's Rights as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study

Karl Hanson and Frédéric Darbellay, University Institute Kurt Bosch (IUKB), Switzerland

Children and Young People as Moral and Legal Actors:
Findings of some empirical surveys in north Italy
Roberta Bosisio, University of Studies of Milan

10:30 Break
10:45 SESSION VII:
Snakes and Ladders or New Beginnings? The UNCRPD and Children with Disabilities
Bronagh Byrne, Queens University Belfast


Law, Childhood and Disability: Identifying the Legal Grounds for Families to Receive Equitable Service
John Davis, University of Edinburgh

Special' Treatment, 'Special' Rights: Dis/abled Children as Doubly Diminished Identities
China Mills, Manchester Metropolitan University

12:30 LUNCH
13:30 SESSION VIII:
Vulnerability, Children and the Law

Jonathan Herring, Exeter College, Oxford


Domestic Violence, Contact and the ECHR
Shazia Choudhry, Queen Mary, University of London

Responding to Child Abuse: The Value of Mandatory Reporting Laws
Ben Mathews, Queensland University of Technology

15:00 Break
15:15 SESSION IX:
Children and Privacy
Kirsty Hughes, University of Cambridge


‘New' Fathers, Joint Residence and the Shared-Parenting Ideal: Building Secure Foundations for Post-Divorce Parenting - Lessons from Sweden

Sonia Harris-Short, University of Birmingham

Children's Perspectives on Relocation after Parental Separation
Megan Gollop and Nicola Taylor, University of Otago, New Zealand

16:45 Break
17:00 SESSION X:
Other People's Children: Children, Community Responsibility and the 'Compensation Culture'?
Jo Bridgeman, University of Sussex


Foster Care Partnerships in Finland 1990-2010: Meeting needs of clients or dominant powers?

Petra Kouvonen, University of Helsinki

Rights-Based Restorative Justice: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Young People in Conflict with the Law
Richard Mitchell and Shannon Moore, Child and Youth Studies Dept., Brock University, Canada

18:30 DRINKS RECEPTION
19:30 END OF CONFERENCE

When & Where



Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
University of Cambridge
5 Cranmer Road
CB3 9BL Cambridge
United Kingdom

Monday, July 5, 2010 at 9:00 AM - Tuesday, July 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM (BST)


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