Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. List of abbreviations vi
5. Notes on contributors vii
6. Acknowledgements xii
7. Preface xiii
8. 1 Children’s rights under pressure: Norway, the European Court of Human Rights and the challenges to welfare state legitimacy 1
9. PART I The European Court of Human Rights from a national perspective
10. 2 Are the child welfare cases against Norway in the European Court of Human Rights unique? 23
11. 3 Child protection and the European Court of Human Rights: the case of Finland and Article 8 45
12. 4 Children’s rights and European Court of Human Rights judgments’ effects on Norwegian courts and jurisprudence 59
13. 5 Implementing international human rights case law at the domestic street level: the case of Norwegian child protection 75
14. 6 Representations of children in European Court of Human Rights judgments 98
15. 7 Exploring ethnicity constructs in European Court of Human Rights judgments 116
16. PART II Transnational influence of the European Court of Human Rights
17. 8 Prioritising the child’s best interests: mixed messages in the international human rights arena 135
18. 9 Think of the children! Children’s rights as the new frontier in anti-gender contestation 153
19. 10 When ‘bad friends’ lobby the court against human rights 178
20. 11 Mobilised interests, the European Court of Human Rights and children’s rights 192
21. PART III The European Court of Human Rights and its jurisprudence
22. 12 Children and rights to identity at the European Court of Human Rights 211
23. 13 Normative considerations about the guiding principles for the European Court of Human Rights allocating custody in child protection 229
24. 14 The relationship between the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the European Court of Human Rights in numbers 244
25. 15 The European Court of Human Rights: an untapped source for advancing child rights? 260
26. Index 272