Children, Youth and the Law

3 cr · Undergraduate

Relationships between child, family, state and law are examined within an interdisciplinary context, focusing on such issues as: rights theories and the public/private distinction; regulation of young offenders, child protection and state intervention; children in the courts; principles of Indigenous reconciliation and various rights frameworks for the regulation of children and youth and their families; the systemic racism within the current legal regime governing children, youth, and their families; and the particular challenges of older children/ young adults at the boundary between childhood and adulthood.