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6 - The Child in the Exception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2024

Maria Grahn-Farley
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Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
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Who has the authority to decide on behalf of children the balance between advancing the child rights regime over the legal certainty of real children? This question is put to the test with the Swedish incorporation of the CRC into the national legal system without adhering to normal democratic safeguards; pairing the hierarchy of norms with the corresponding hierarchy of sources when conducing judicial review, or a political question doctrine to maintain the line between the courts and the democratically elected legislator. To incorporate the CRC directly without a process of transference, an international treaty that is as wide in scope and open for interpretation to be directly applicable in concrete cases has caused a persistent condition akin to Agamben’s state of exception, read through Swedish scholar Herbert Tingsten.

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Print publication year: 2024

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  • The Child in the Exception
  • Maria Grahn-Farley, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
  • Online publication: 07 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366953.007
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  • Maria Grahn-Farley, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
  • Online publication: 07 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366953.007
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  • The Child in the Exception
  • Maria Grahn-Farley, Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: Child Rights, Legal Theory and Social Advocacy
  • Online publication: 07 November 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009366953.007
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