Children's Constitutional Rights in the Nordic Countries / / edited by Trude Haugli [and three others].

• Superior document: Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children's Rights Series ; Volume 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Haugli, Trude,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Stockholm studies in child law and children's rights ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The book presents a comparative study of children’s constitutional rights in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. The authors discuss the value of enshrining children’s rights in national constitutions in addition to implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Central issues are whether enshrining children’s rights in the Constitution improves implementation and enforcement of those rights by providing advocacy tools and by mandating courts, legislators, policy-makers and practitioners to take children’s rights seriously. The study assesses whether the Nordic constitutions are in line with the child rights approach of the CRC both on a general level and in detail in three domains; the best interests of the child, participation rights, and the right to respect for family life.

Table of Contents

Introduction to children's constitutional rights -- Children's rights in nordic constitutional law -- Best interests of the child in nordic law -- Children's right to participation in nordic law -- Children's right to family life in nordic law -- Concluding analysis.