International Child Law

Analysing both public and private international legal aspects, this cross-disciplinary text promotes a holistic understanding of the on-going development of child law. This 4th edition has been updated and revised, including a new chapter dealing with issues arising from childhood in the age of digital technological advancements.

Dr Rajnaara C. Akhtar is a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, UK. Her main teaching and research interests include family law, international law, child law, gender and law and human rights. She received her PhD from the University of Warwick in 2013, and holds a Masters degree in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham. Dr Conrad Nyamutata is a lecturer at De Montfort University, UK. His main teaching and research interests include broadly public international law, with specialisms in international child law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law and media and mass communications. He holds an MA in Mass Communication (University of Leicester) and an LLM in international human rights and international humanitarian law from Lancaster University. He received his PhD at De Montfort University in 2015.

1. Childhood and children's rights; 2. Introduction to international law sources and institutions; 3. The United Nations Convention on the rights of the child; 4. Childhood in the digital age; 5. Child labour; 6. International parental child abduction; 7. Inter-country adoption; 8. Sexual exploitation; 9. Children in armed conflict; 10. Indigenous children