Book Launch: Childhood in Liberal Theory: Equality, Difference and Children’s Rights
2:00pm - 5:00pm /
Friday 22nd November 2024
/ Venue: SLSJ Events Space, Ground Floor School of Law & Social Justice
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
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The School of Law and Social Justice at the University of Liverpool is hosting a book launch for Dr Brando’s recently published monograph Childhood in Liberal Theory.
This book explores childhood and children’s rights from within the framework of liberal theories of justice. Childhood in Liberal Theory aims to question core assumptions about who children are, and how they should be treated as right-holders, through a thorough re-evaluation of the role that equality and difference play in our understandings of justice.
Children hold a unique position within society, often perceived as different from adults and subjected to differential treatment in various spheres of life. But is this differential treatment justified? Are children fundamentally different from adults in a way that justifies their distinct treatment under the law?
Childhood in Liberal Theory questions prevailing assumptions about childhood and children’s rights in the philosophical literature. It offers a novel look at these assumptions through an ambitious deconstruction of the concept of ‘childhood’, and an ‘Adaptive model’ of children’s rights as the most apt way of including children within liberal discourses on justice.
Dr Brando will introduce the book, a there will be a roundtable in which discussants will engage jointly with the author on the contribution of the book, and its use for children’s rights scholars.
The book is accessible freely for open access at the Oxford University Press website as part of the British Academy Monograph series.
For more information, and to register for the event, please contact Nicolás Brando.
This event is funded and supported by the European Children’s Rights Unit.
This book explores childhood and children’s rights from within the framework of liberal theories of justice. Childhood in Liberal Theory aims to question core assumptions about who children are, and how they should be treated as right-holders, through a thorough re-evaluation of the role that equality and difference play in our understandings of justice.
Children hold a unique position within society, often perceived as different from adults and subjected to differential treatment in various spheres of life. But is this differential treatment justified? Are children fundamentally different from adults in a way that justifies their distinct treatment under the law?
Childhood in Liberal Theory questions prevailing assumptions about childhood and children’s rights in the philosophical literature. It offers a novel look at these assumptions through an ambitious deconstruction of the concept of ‘childhood’, and an ‘Adaptive model’ of children’s rights as the most apt way of including children within liberal discourses on justice.
Dr Brando will introduce the book, a there will be a roundtable in which discussants will engage jointly with the author on the contribution of the book, and its use for children’s rights scholars.
The book is accessible freely for open access at the Oxford University Press website as part of the British Academy Monograph series.
For more information, and to register for the event, please contact Nicolás Brando.
This event is funded and supported by the European Children’s Rights Unit.