Special issue of the International Journal of Children’s Rights published

A special issue of the International Journal of Children’s Rights, edited by Brian Sloan and Claire Fenton-Glynn, has been published. The issue is entitled ‘Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Families, Guidance and Evolving Capacities’. It contains papers presented at an international and interdisciplinary CRC Implementation Project colloquium held under the auspices of the Cambridge Family Law Centre in 2019.

The issue’s table of contents is as follows:

• Editorial by Brian Sloan and Claire-Fenton-Glynn
• ‘The Enigma of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child: Central or Peripheral?’ by Elaine E Sutherland
• ‘Assessing Children’s Capacity: Reconceptualising our Understanding through the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’ by Ursula Kilkelly
• ‘Article 5: The Role of Parents in the Proxy Informed Consent Process in Medical Research involving Children’ by Sheila Varadan
• ‘Parental Responsibilities and Rights during the “Gender reassignment” Decision-making Process of Intersex Infants: Guidance in Terms of Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child’ by Lize Mills and Sabrina Thompson
• ‘Scotland’s Named Person Scheme: A Case Study of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Practice’ by Gillian Black
• ‘New Zealand Case Studies to Test the Meaning and Use of Article 5 of the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child’ by Mark Henaghan
• ‘Do Parents Know Best?’ by John Eekelaar
• ‘Children’s Capacities and Role in Matters of Great Significance for Them: An Analysis of the Norwegian County Boards’ Decision-making in Cases about Adoption from Care’ by Amy McEwan-Strand and Marit Skivenes
• ‘Article 5 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Involvement of Fathers in Adoption Proceedings: A Comparative Analysis’ by Brian Sloan

In addition to that from the Centre, financial support for the project was gratefully received from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, Robinson College and the University of Cambridge’s Strategic Research Initiative on Public Policy.

There are plans to publish an edited collection containing additional papers from the colloquium in due course.