This collection, written by legal scholars from around the world, offers insights into a variety of topics from children's rights to criminal law, jurisprudence, medical ethics and more. Its breadth reflects the fact that these are all elements of what can broadly be called 'law and society', that enterprise that is interested in law's place or influence in diffferent aspects of real lives and understands law to be simultaneously symbol, philosophy and action. It is also testament to the broad range of vision of Professor Michael Freeman, in whose honour the volume was conceived. The...

This book is for academics, practitioners, policy-makers and civil society actors working in the fields of children's rights, child development, family law and, more broadly, child law and childhood studies. Based on interdisciplinary research, it suggests a new and radical conception of childhood and the meaning of children's right to development.