Listening to 'the other'? The Convention on the Rights of the Child

Harris-Short, S.R.

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An ‘Identity Crisis’ in the International Law of Human Rights? The Challenge of Reproductive Cloning (2004)
Journal Article
Harris-Short, S. (2004). An ‘Identity Crisis’ in the International Law of Human Rights? The Challenge of Reproductive Cloning. International Journal of Children's Rights, 11(4), 333-368. https://doi.org/10.1163/157181804322985169

Judicial Approaches to the Human Rights Act (2003)
Journal Article
Bonner, D., Fenwick, H., & Harris-Short, S. (2003). Judicial Approaches to the Human Rights Act. International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 52(3), 549-586. https://doi.org/10.1093/iclq/52.3.549

Examines the role of the European Convention on Human Rights 1950 in UK law and analyses the use of the Human Rights Act 1998 in the interpretation of the provisions of UK law said to be in breach of the Convention. Considers, through the use of case... Read More about Judicial Approaches to the Human Rights Act.

International Human Rights Law – Imperialist, Inept and Ineffective? Cultural Relativism and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (2003)
Journal Article
Harris-Short, S. (2003). International Human Rights Law – Imperialist, Inept and Ineffective? Cultural Relativism and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Human Rights Quarterly, 25(1), 130-181. https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2003.0004

Against the background of the largely theoretical debate concerning the use and potential abuse of the cultural relativism argument by State elites, this article seeks to explore how, if at all, the cultural relativism argument is actually being depl... Read More about International Human Rights Law – Imperialist, Inept and Ineffective? Cultural Relativism and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Listening to 'the other'? The Convention on the Rights of the Child (2001)
Journal Article
Harris-Short, S. (2001). Listening to 'the other'? The Convention on the Rights of the Child. Melbourne journal of international law, 2(2), 304-350

This paper seeks to analyse whether the Convention on the Rights of the Child, its text and its monitoring procedure, successfully meets the challenge posed by cultural relativism to the legitimacy of the United Nations’ international human rights re... Read More about Listening to 'the other'? The Convention on the Rights of the Child.