Treated Like a Child

Aoife Daly, Professor of Law, University College Cork. She is author of Children, Autonomy and the Courts (Brill | Nijhoff, 2018) and has a European Research Council grant to research child/youth climate justice around the world. Pernilla Leviner, Professor of Public Law, Faculty of Law and Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child at Stockholm University. Her research interests lie within and across the fields of public and family law and focus primarily on child protection and children’s rights. Rebecca Thorburn Stern, Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University and Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, Lund University. Her research encompasses the fields of migration law, children’s human rights, and the relationship between national and international law.

• ContentsNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionAoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner2 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 2, and Discrimination on the Basis of Childhood: The CRC Paradox?Aoife Daly, Rebecca Thorburn Stern and Pernilla Leviner3 ‘Handle with Care’: Addressing Disadvantage Based on Childhood through a Non-discrimination FrameMichael George Marcondes Smith and Wouter Vandenhole4 Confronting Age Discrimination: The Importance of Article 2 of the Convention on the Rights of the ChildClaire Breen5 Adultism, Normative Power, and Voting Age DiscriminationJohn Wall6 Decolonizing Age Discrimination against Children in Intergenerational Relationships: Alternative Generationing and GenerativitiesLucia Rabello de Castro7 Nondiscrimination/Equality and Children’s Rights in the Climate CrisisAoife Daly8 Working Children: Children without Childhood or Opponents against Age-Based Discrimination?Manfred Liebel9 The Devil Is in the Details(?): Age-Based Discrimination of Children in the Context of MigrationRebecca Thorburn Stern10 Children, Age Discrimination Law, and Consent to SurgeryPriscilla Alderson11 Children as Bearers of Rights or of Problems? Non-legitimate and Unfair Treatment of Children in the Context of Combatting Gang Crime in SwedenPernilla LevinerIndex