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Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights Outstanding Student Research Theses
Below is a list of the most outstanding research theses submitted by students of the Master of Laws: Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights (LL.M.) programme. All research theses received excellent marks (8.0 and above).
The research theses are available in full text. For any referencing purpose, please cite the thesis title and author’s name accordingly.
Class of 2022-2023
- Chunya Boonyawan - 'The forgotten child: The Right to Identity of stateless children in Thailand'
- Vineeca (Meng-Ting) Kuo - 'Voicing the Bloody Truth -- A Children's Rights Approach to Overcome Menstrual Stigma and Taboos in Asia'
- Lisa Achien’g Odhiambo - 'Strategic litigation as a tool to enforce the right to nationality for children of Kenyan-refugee Unions'.
- Tatiana Pinilla Blanco - 'Children Recruitment in Colombia in the Context of Peace Process. An International Standards Analysis'.
- Tamizhoviya Indhoomati Thangavel - 'Freedom from Caste: Seeking Solutions through National and International Children's Rights Framework'
- Shou-Hui Yang - Returning the Abducted Children: The Positive Obligation of Member States to Cooperate with Non-Ratifying States – Using Taiwan as An Example
- Kaeko Yoshimoto - 'The Right to Education of Ukrainian Children'
Class of 2021-2022
- Mateo Fatsani Chitha - Domestic Courts' Framework on Disposition of Children with Disabilities in Conflict with the Law
- Rehana Dole - An analysis of the criminalisation of consensual sexual relations between adolescents in South Asia
- Elizabeth Hood - The Rights of the Boy on the Beach Proposing a children’s rights-based approach to news reporting on migrant children
- Yaël Pelegrin - A Child Rights Based Proposal for the Regulation of Commercial Sharenting
- Francesca Pisanu - The Role of the Istanbul Convention in protecting children from domestic violence
- Daniel Simon - Age Assessment in the Austrian Asylum Procedure –Dealing with Invasive Methods and Inaccurate Results on a Legal Basis
- Begüm Şimşek - Constitutional Recognition Of Children’s Right To Participate In Democratic Decision-making
- Rachele Zamperini - The Best Interests of the Child Principle in the European Court of Human Rights Case-Law about Adoption and Surrogacy
- Anne de Zeeuw - Blue bias? An international children’s rights-based approach to ethnic profiling of minority youth in The Netherlands
Class of 2020-2021
- Betina Borisova – The Best Interests Of The Child In Parental Abduction Cases: Rethinking The Hague Abduction Convention In Light of Children’s Rights
- Deniece Carrington – Influential or Insignificant? The Potential for the CRC’s Framework to Inspire the US to Respect and Ensure Black Children’s Right to Non-discrimination
- Greta Faieta – The Right to Mental Health of Unaccompanied Children: An Invisible Right?
- Ruth Juliet Gachanja – Prevention Is Better Than Cure: The States Obligation To Prevent Child Trafficking
- Marie-Pier Giroux – The Phenomenon of Self-Generated Sexual Content among Adolescents
- Leah Ondeng’e – A Critique of the Criminalization of Consensual Sexual Interaction Between Adolescents in Comparative Jurisdictions
- Avinash Pichili – Children’s Education Rights in the face of Climate Change: Adequacy of International Children’s Rights Framework and the Way Forward
- Laura Shorten – Existential Oblivion – An Analysis of the CRC’s Legal Framework in Protecting Children’s Right to Health and Right to Life in the Face of Climate Change
- Carlota Soumah Fernandez – ‘You Fit the Description’ Tracing Labels: The nexus between the over criminalisation of black boys in schools and their over representation in the Criminal Justice System
Class of 2019-2020
- Walter Burkard – A Matter of [A Dignified] Life and Death Climate Change and Children’s Rights
- Chandrima Chattopadhyay – The Right to Privacy in Dataveillance Schools
- Daniela Farrugia – Children’s voice at Home: A Vitality or a Fairy-tale? Children’s Right to Self-Expression at Home under International Children’s Rights Law
- Charlotte van der Gucht – The Impact of Financial Abuses in Intercountry Adoptions on Children’s Rights and the Way Forward to Tackle these Abuses
- Zhuojun Han – Promoting Children’s Right to Identify in the Context of Irregular Migration Marriages in China
- Nietta Keane – Can the CRC protect children from a gender biased education?
Class of 2018-2019
- Oscar Alva Arias – The Committee on the Rights of the Child’s role regarding the impact of global operations of businesses on children’s rights
- Anna Bracco – The Impact of the Criminalization of the Child Abduction on the Child’s Right to Maintain Personal Relations With Both Parents
- Mieke Breedijk – In Search of UN CRC-Based Remedies for Child Civilians Affected by Armed Conflict
- Marie Gaudard – Age Assessment for Unaccompanied Minors in France
- Riley Healey – Safety or Slavery? Legal Protections for Children at Risk of Being Trafficked from Refugee Reception Centres in Europe
- Xin Jiang – Age Verification, Porn Tube Sites and Children’s Rights
- Hanneke Kramps – Countering Child Abuse by Aid Workers: How the Convention on the Rights of the Child Guides NGOs Child Safeguarding Measures
- Roelof van Laar – The End of Child Labour in 2025: A Path to Victory
- Chisom Oke-Chinda – Off The Rights Spectrum: The Treatment Of Child Offenders Deprived Of Liberty In Nigeria
- Caterina Tempesta – Legal Representations as a Critical Aspect of the Realization of the Child’s Right to Be Heard
Class of 2017-2018
- Marit Buddenbaum - The Rights of Siblings under International Children’s Rights Law
- Olga Erenc - Lowering the Voting Age from Children’s Rights Perspective
- Debby Naztty Pratiwi - Balancing The Interests of Child Offenders and Child Victims through Diversion in Child-on-Child Crime: Evaluation through The International Children’s Rights Legal Framework
- Hei Yu Wong - The Safeguarding of Children’s Rights through Collaborative Practice in Resolving Disputes After Parental Separation
Class of 2016-2017
- Klarise Estorninos - A Legal Analysis of Selected ASEAN Declarations and Conventions from a Child Right Perspective
- Capucine Page - Artificial Womb Technology and the Safeguarding of Children’s Rights through an Analysis of the Right to Identity
- Yuri Torres - Voluntourism from a Children’s Rights Perspective
Class of 2015-2016
- Juliette Duchesne - The Child's Right to be Heard in South Africa and the United States of America; Analysis of the Haque Abduction Convention
- Marine Mathieu - The Practice of enjo kõsai in Japan through the Perspective of Children’s Rights
- Chiaki Takenouchi - Reconceptualising the Right-less Children’s Right to Legal Identity
- Daniella Zlotnik - Children and the Changing Picture of the Family: A Child-Centered and Rights-Based Approach to Multiple Parent Families