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The Childhood, Law & Policy Network (CLPN)

Ms Samantha Godwin

ISP Resident Fellow, Yale Law School, United States

Email: samantha.godwin@yale.edu

Profile

I approach children's rights questions in law from a perspective informed by feminist legal theory and liberal egalitarian moral and political philosophy.

Research

Publications

Children's Capacities and Paternalism, Journal of Ethics, (2020); Against Parental Rights, 47 Columbia Human Rights Law Review. 1, 1 (2015) ; Children’s Oppression, Rights and Liberation, 4 Northwestern. Interdisciplinary Law Review 247 (2011)

Expertise

Philosophy of children's legal status, theories of paternalism, parental rights
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