Children`s Rights at Cross

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Leiden University Summer School
International Children’s Rights
Children’s Rights at Cross-Roads
Leiden & The Hague
26-30 August 2013
Photo: UNICEF
Children's Rights at Cross-Roads provides a comprehensive children's rights course, which takes a close look at contemporary children's rights issues from a legal perspective accompanied by reflections from other academic disciplines, legal
systems, local perceptions and realities. Leading academic and professional experts in the field of children's rights, international law and other relevant disciplines offer inspiring and interactive lectures, seminars and excursions in and around
Leiden Law School.
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Course Directors:
Professor Ton Liefaard
Leiden University, UNICEF Chair in Children’s Rights
Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen
University of the Western-Cape
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Course Faculty:
Professor Jaap Doek
Former Chair UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Professor Willliam Schabas
Leiden University & Irish Centre for Human Rights
Professor Mariëlle Bruning
Leiden University
Professor Ursula Kilkelly
University College Cork
Professor Karin Arts
International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ms. Tulika Bansal
Danish Institute for Human Rights
Dr. Thoko Kaime
University of Surrey
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Special Features:
Seminar with UNICEF & Defence for Children International in the Children’s Rights House
Excursion to Youth Institution Teylingereind in Sassenheim
Field trip to the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Farewell party at the beach in Scheveningen
More information & registration: www.grotiuscentre.org