Child-friendly justice requires legal professionals to possess practical knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for applying a child-rights-centered, individualized, and holistic approach in any case concerning children. However, many of these essential competencies are not sufficiently covered in higher legal education. Recent research highlights the lack of lawyers’ capacities as one of the key challenges in establishing sustainable children’s rights practices. This paper explores the scope of lawyers’ practical knowledge relevant to children’s rights and identifies the knowledge, skills and attributes that lawyers need to support sustainable children’s rights practices. The study applies Aristotle’s concept of phronesis (practical wisdom) and Gadamers's hermeneutics of legal interpretation as its theoretical framework. It is grounded in ongoing research, including interviews with children’s rights professionals in Sweden and Serbia. The preliminary findings indicate a pressing need to strengthen lawyers’ practical knowledge in legal education to promote sustainable children’s rights practices.
This paper is part of a postdoctoral research project titled “Lawyer’s Practical Knowledge of Children’s Rights Principles towards Sustainable Society – Experiences of Sweden and Serbia”, funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies.'

Authors:
Milena Banic, Södertörn University, Sweden

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Milena Banic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University, Stockholm.

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