Current research interests:

  • Implementation of Children’s Rights Law

  • Human Rights Education/Children’s Rights Education

  • Youth participation

  • Public Health Approaches to Human Trafficking

  • Legal and Cultural Constructs of Childhood

Publications

Works in Progress

  • Specific forthcoming publications include:

    • Teaching Children’s Rights: Law and Context (Edward Elgar Publishing, book under contract)

    • Human Rights (casebook, West Academic Press, 3rd edition, under contract) (with Louis Henkin, Monica Iyer, Sarah Paoletti, Lawrence Helfer et al.)

    • “Recognizing Children’s Right to Positive Peer Relationships,” Harvard Human Rights Journal, 40:___ (with Vaishnavi Ramalingam) (forthcoming Spring 2027)

    • “Children’s Rights in the United States: Beyond Harmful Binaries,” Journal of Law and Policy, 35:___ (forthcoming December 2026)

Books

Book Chapters and Other Collected Works

  • “Incorporating the CRC and Its Optional Protocols in the United States.” In Incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in National Law, edited by Ursula Kilkelly, Laura Lundy, and Bronagh Byrne, Intersentia, pp. 123-143, 2021.

  • “Children and Disasters: The Essential Role of Children’s Rights Law.” In Yearbook of International Disaster Law, vol 2, edited by Giulio Bartolini, Dug Cubie, Marlies Hesselman & Jacqueline Peel, Brill/Nijhoff, pp. 177-203, 2021.

  • “Children’s Right to Participate: Insights from the Story of Malala.” In Literary Cultures and Twenty-First Century Childhoods, edited by Nathalie op de Beeck, Palgrave, 2020

  • “Article 8: Preservation of a Child’s Identity” in The Convention on the Rights of the Child: A Commentary, edited by John Tobin, Oxford University Press, 2019 (co-authored with John Tobin)

  • “Violence, Exploitation, and the Rights of the Child” In International Human Rights of Children, edited by Ursula Kilkelly & Ton Liefaard, Springer, 2018.

  • “Confronting Child Exploitation: The Optional Protocols and the Role of Children’s Rights Law.” In Violence against Children: Making Human Rights Real, (Gertrud Lenzer ed., New York: Routledge, 2018).

  • “Children’s Rights and Women’s Rights: Interrelated and Interdependent.” In Handbook of Children’s Rights: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Martin Ruck, Michele Peterson-Badali, and Michael Freeman, eds., New York: Routledge, 2017).

  • “Health and Human Rights” in Oxford Bibliographies (Public Health) (David McQueen ed., Oxford University Press, January 2014; revised edition 2017)

  • “At the Crossroads: Children’s Rights and the U.S. Government” in Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Shareen Hertel & Kathryn Libal eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011)

  • "A Human Rights Approach to Preventing Sex Trafficking of Children” in Child Slavery Now: A Contemporary Reader (Gary Craig ed., Policy Press, 2010)

    • Book voted joint winner of the Most Important Book of the Year by Policy Press, February 2011 (The award is given to the book which could make the biggest contribution to positive social change)

  • “Analyzing the Opposition to U.S. Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child” in The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications of U.S. Ratification (Jonathan Todres, Mark Wojcik & Cris Revaz eds., Brill Academic Publishers, 2006)

  • “The Right to Health under the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child” in The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications of U.S. Ratification (Jonathan Todres, Mark Wojcik & Cris Revaz eds., Brill Academic Publishers, 2006)

  • “The Optional Protocols to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Impact of U.S. Ratification” in The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications of U.S. Ratification (Jonathan Todres, Mark Wojcik & Cris Revaz eds., Brill Academic Publishers, 2006) (coauthored with Cris Revaz)

  • “What the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child Says (and Doesn’t Say) about Abortion and Family Planning” in The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications of U.S. Ratification (Jonathan Todres, Mark Wojcik & Cris Revaz eds., Brill Academic Publishers, 2006) (coauthored with Louise Howe)

  • “Overview” in The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Treaty Provisions and Implications of U.S. Ratification (Jonathan Todres, Mark Wojcik & Cris Revaz eds., Brill Academic Publishers, 2006) (coauthored with Mark Wojcik and Cris Revaz)

Scholarly articles in peer review and law journals

Selected Shorter Publications

  Representative popular press articles and online essays