# Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child

**Source**: https://www.su.se/english/divisions/stockholm-centre-for-the-rights-of-the-child
**Parent**: https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/contact/departments-and-centres

## Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child

We are a Research Centre and platform at the Departement of Law with focus on children's rights and legal issues relating to children.

## What is child law?

Child law can be described as the sum of all the law that in any way handles or regulates children’s life situations, including children’s rights as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Child law has a distinct interdisciplinary character and lies at the interstices of public and private law. Child law addresses issues concerning, e.g., a child’s legal status within the family, a child’s relationship with parents or guardians, and also involves the responsibility and authority for the state to act for the protection of children and how legal proceedings should be adapted to better fit the needs of children. Child law also has clear and inevitable links to international law – both as children move across borders, but also because of the different international conventions regulating children’s rights.

Child law research is multi-disciplinary and includes everything from a psychological perspective on how to talk to children and child development, to the impact of welfare interventions, and, for example, how environmental aspects affect children specifically. Child law is thus not fixed but consists of a moving and multi-disciplinary research field, constantly open to the research perspectives that society generates.\

## About

*Stockholm Centre for the Rights of the Child is the hub of a child law-oriented network of researchers from various scientific fields, both nationally and internationally. We have a wide network of contacts with representatives of authorities and organizations with an interest in child law issues.*

[Read more](https://www.su.se/english/divisions/stockholm-centre-for-the-rights-of-the-child/about-the-centre)

## Participants

[Department of Law](https://www.su.se/english/divisions/department-of-law)

### [Book Series](https://www.su.se/english/divisions/stockholm-centre-for-the-rights-of-the-child/about-the-centre/stockholm-studies-in-child-law-and-childrens-rights)

Explore cutting-edge research in Stockholm Studies in Child Law and Children’s Rights

### [Our researchers](https://www.su.se/english/divisions/stockholm-centre-for-the-rights-of-the-child/contact)

Get to know the scholars driving our research forward.

### [Migration and integration](https://www.su.se/english/research/research-groups/children-migration-and-integration)

In 2016, the Human Science Academic Area introduced a specific interdisciplinary initiative

## NEWS

## CALENDAR

### [Our Board](https://www.su.se/english/divisions/stockholm-centre-for-the-rights-of-the-child/about-the-centre)

The Centre's board consists of several prominent lawyers and researchers.

### [Research projects](https://www.su.se/english/divisions/department-of-law/research/research-projects)

At the centre of our work is research on children’s rights across multiple legal areas and real-world settings.

### [Department of Law](https://www.su.se/english/divisions/department-of-law)

Learn more about what it’s like to study law with us and hear what our students say about our programmes.

### [Faculty of Law](https://www.su.se/english/about-the-university/organisation/faculties/faculty-of-law)

The Faculty of Law at Stockholm University is the largest law faculty in Sweden.