A special issue of the International Journal of Children’s Rights, edited by Brian Sloan and Claire Fenton-Glynn (LML Member), 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 special issue contains chapters addressing a number of topics within the remit of medical law, including:
- ‘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
- ‘Do Parents Know Best?’ by John Eekelaar
In addition to that from the Cambridge Family Law 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.