Putting the Age of Criminal and Tort Liability into Context: A Dialogue between Law and Psychology

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This article, published in the leading children’s rights journal, explores for the first time in legal studies the impact of the European private law harmonisation process on children's rights, and uses the issue of children's tort liability as a case-study. The legal solutions in this field are analysed and compared, and the academic proposals for harmonisation are assessed. The advisability of further harmonisation is assessed, whilst also illustrating the importance of socio-economic factors in this process, and highlighting the relevance of children's rights and fundamental rights to this debate. This article tackles the rarely acknowledged relationship between private law harmonisation in the EU and children's rights, and offers original insights into and recommendations on this topic. Available on http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157181811x587359

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Cited, for example, in Je-Woo Lee, The Nature of Guardian Liability and the Delictual and Financial Capacities of Minors, Korea University, 2014; and Helen Stalford, Children and the European Union: Rights, Welfare and Accountability, Hart, 2012.