Child Law (LA6093)

The question as to whether children can have rights has prompted a great deal of debate. The debate concerns the ‘choice’ or ‘will’ theory of rights. The philosopher HLA Hart considers the term ‘rights’ inapplicable to babies, children or even animals. Others refer to the interest theory of rights, which argues that a person has a right where his interests are protected in certain ways by the imposition of legal or moral constraints on the acts or activities of other people. T...

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