This module provides students with the opportunity to engage on a critical level with children’s rights norms, research, theories and practices in relation to contemporary children’s rights issues. It will cover the legal foundations of children’s rights, including, at international level, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, as well as its implementation in England and Wales, and relevant regional instruments. Critical issues around the content and realisation of children’s rights will then be considered via case-studies (for example, children’s rights in healthcare settings, children’s rights and migration, children and the right to vote, tackling violence against children, children’s rights and poverty, children’s rights in education settings). The aim is to provide students with the tools to understand childhood and children’s rights as a theoretical, legal and practical endeavour. This module will be of interest to students who would like to learn about the rights of children in a range of contexts (with a particular emphasis on childhood in the Global South), as well as to those studying international law. This module will be assessed via a mid-term research proposal, and a final written text.