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Citation

Lott N & Kirk T (2025) Children, Rights and Temporality. Child and Family Law Quarterly.

Abstract
First paragraph: ‘Children’s rights research is an under-theorised field’. This bold statement was how Matias Cordero Arce opened his 2015 critique of children’s rights scholarship.1 Whilst not alone in this perspective,2 Arce’s critique was challenged by Peleg and Hanson in their 2020 paper, ‘Waiting for Child Rights Theory’, that sought to reject the notion that children’s rights should be ‘notorious for its absence’ of theory and, instead, spotlighted the ‘abundance’ of theory in children’s rights scholarship.3 However, theoretical discussion regarding children’s rights centres heavily on questions of children’s agency and autonomy, paternalism, and more recently decolonisation. As noted by Liefaard and Kilkelly international children’s rights have grown out of the field of human rights law but children’s rights scholarship and legal analysis, particularly at the national level, has been dominated by topics and themes from related fields of family law and child law.4

Notes
Output Status: Forthcoming

Journal
Child and Family Law Quarterly