Conférences d’ouverture et de synthèse
Opening and Synthesis Conferences
Conférence d’ouverture – Opening Conference
Ton Liefaard « Access to justice: children included? »
RESUME
Access to justice for children can count on increased attention in international and domestic policy, and in children’s rights scholarship. However, many questions remain unanswered. This paper will address some key issues, both fundamental and practical, that revolve around the question to what extent access to justice can serve as a vehicle to (better) include children as citizens of their societies and as members of their communities and (extended) families. It will be submitted that children’s right to access justice can contribute to the inclusion of children, but that the concept of access to justice and its meaning for children, as a group and as individuals, requires (much) more attention in research in order to understand its true potential. The paper will build on examples from the author’s previous research, among others on juvenile justice and child-friendly justice.
SPEAKER
Prof. Dr. Ton Liefaard holds the UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights at Leiden University, Leiden Law School. He teaches children’s rights, child law and juvenile justice from an international and comparative perspective and has published widely on the meaning of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and related international and regional instruments for the position of children at the national level. He is the programme director of the Master Programme (LL.M) Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights. He also coordinates the Leiden Summer School on International Children’s Rights. He has received the award for best lecturer of Leiden Law School in 2015.Ton Liefaard is a honorary juvenile judge at the District Court of Amsterdam and was a member of the Government Committee on the Reassessment of Parenthood (Staatscommissie Herijking Ouderschap) advising the Dutch Government on changing parental relationships and the position of children. On the 1st of October 2016 he was appointed as a member of the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles. He regularly works as a consultant for international organizations, including agencies of the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the European Union, on issues related to children’s rights, juvenile justice, child friendly justice, child protection, alternative care and violence against children.
Conférence de synthèse – Synthesis Conference
PIERRE NOREAU
Pierre Noreau est professeur à la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal et chercheur du Centre de recherche en droit public, Centre dont il a été le Directeur de 2003 à 2006. Il œuvre principalement dans le domaine de la sociologie du droit. Pierre Noreau a été Président de l’Association francophone pour le savoir (l’ACFAS) de 2008 à 2012, Directeur du Bureau des Amériques de l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) de 2009 à 2013 puis Vice-recteur à la programmation et au développement de l’AUF de 2011 à 2014. Ses travaux portent notamment sur le fonctionnement et l’évolution du droit contemporain et l’accès au droit et à la justice. Ses publications récentes explorent les questions touchant à la question autochtone, la déontologie judiciaire et les conditions de la recherche interdisciplinaire en droit. Pierre Noreau est directeur scientifique du projet Accès au droit et à la justice (adaj.ca). Il détient un doctorat de l’Institut d’Études politiques de Paris.
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