Children's Rights and Children's Vulnerability with Professor Jonathan Herring
Jonathan Herring is the Vice Dean and Professor of Law at the Law Faculty, Oxford University and DM Wolfe-Clarendon Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford University. He has written on family law, medical law, criminal law and legal issues surrounding care and old age. His books include: Vulnerable Adults and the Law (2016); Caring and the Law (2014); Older People in Law and Society (OUP, 2009); Altruism, Welfare and the Law (Springer, 2015, with Charles Foster); Identity, Personhood and the Law (Springer, 2017) (with Charles Foster) European Human Rights and Family Law (Hart, 2010) (With Shazia Choudhry); Medical Law and Ethics (OUP 2016); Criminal Law, (Oxford University Press 2016); Family Law (Pearson, 2017); and The Woman Who Tickled Too Much (Pearson, 2009).
This lecture will explore the argument that children cannot be given the same rights as adults because they are vulnerable and need protection. It will explore the way that vulnerability is used in policy towards children's rights. Contrary to a popular line of thought I will accept that children are profoundly vulnerable. However, I will argue that adults are too. While, therefore accepting the radical claim that children's rights should match those of adults, I will argue this because adults should be treated more like children, rather than that children should be treated like adults.
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