The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary (Oxford Commentaries on International Law) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198262655 ISBN 13: 9780198262657

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2019

Synopsis

This volume provides a detailed analysis and evaluation of each of the 40 articles which comprise this convention and examines the optional protocols that have developed since its inception.

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About the Author

Professor John Tobin holds the Francine McNiff Chair in International Human Rights Law in the Law School at Melbourne University. He has been a Visiting Professor at New York University, the Washington College of Law, American University, and Queens University, Belfast. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards of the International Journal of Children's Rights and the Melbourne Journal of International Law. He has provided advice on children's rights to numerous government agencies, judicial bodies, law reform commissions, NGOs and international organisations. In 2017 he was a member of an independent panel of experts which reviewed Taiwan's compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. He is the Chief Examiner of the Law Institute of Victoria's Child Law Specialisation Scheme and has worked in the Victorian Government's Department of Justice on youth justice issues as a senior lawyer with the Youth Legal Service at Victoria Legal Aid.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198262655
• ISBN 13: 9780198262657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1872
• Editor: Tobin John