Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights

Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children's Rights
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7147-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Using Norway as a case study, this book examines what role the supranational European Court of Human Rights plays in the development and contestation of child protection and children’s rights as they are laid out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stein Helland, Hege

Skivenes, Marit

Gloppen, Siri

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht Familienrecht Sorgerecht, fam. Namensrecht, Abstammung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Children’s Rights Under Pressure: Norway, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Challenges to Welfare State Legitimacy - Hege Stein Helland, Marit Skivenes and Siri Gloppen

Part 1: The European Court of Human Rights from a national perspective

2. Are the child welfare cases against Norway in the European Court of Human Rights unique? - Marius Emberland

3. Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights – the case of Finland and Article 8 - Raija Huhtanen and Tarja Pösö

4. Children's rights and the ECtHR judgements’ effects on Norwegian Courts and jurisprudence - Kirsten Sandberg

5. Implementing International Human Rights Case Law at the Domestic Street-Level: The Case of Norwegian Child Protection - Hege Stein Helland

6. Representations of children in ECtHR judgments - Katrin Križ and Daniela Reimer

7. Exploring ethnicity constructs in ECtHR judgments - Daniela Reimer, Katrin Križ, Mary Burns, Gabriela Serra, and Kerry Shea

Part 2: Transnational influence of the European Court of Human Rights

8. Prioritising the Child’s Best Interests: Mixed Messages in the International Human Rights Arena - Elaine E. Sutherland

9. Think of the Children! Children’s Rights as the New Frontier in Anti-gender Contestation - Neil Datta

10. When “Bad Friends” Lobby the Court against Human Rights - Asgeir Falch-Eriksen

11. Mobilised Interests, the ECtHR and Children's Rights - Rachel Cichowski and Elizabeth Chrun

Part 3: The European Court of Human Rights and its jurisprudence

12. Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights - Jill Marshall

13. Normative considerations about the guiding principles for the European Court of Human Rights allocating custody in child protection - David Archard and Marit Skivenes

14. The Relationship Between the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and The European Court of Human Rights in Numbers - Claire Fenton-Glynn

15. The European Court of Human Rights – an untapped source for advancing child rights? - Hege Stein Helland, Marit Skivenes and Siri Gloppen

Über Autor(innen)

Skivenes, Marit
Marit Skivenes is Professor at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory and the Director of Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen.

Hege Stein Helland is Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government and the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen.

Siri Gloppen is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government and the Centre for Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen.

Marit Skivenes is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government and the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the University of Bergen.