This Second Edition of `The Child and the European Court of Human Rights' has been fully revised to expand and update the reader on ECHR developments on children's issues and the substantial growth in the case law of the European Court with regard to children since publication of the First Edition in 1999.

Dr. Ursula Kilkelly is Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University College Cork. She has lectured and published widely on children's rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and juvenile justice. She currently teaches Juvenile Justice, International Trade Law and Moot Court and is developing a Child Law Clinic. At the Faculty of Law, she is the Director of both the Law International Programme and the LLM in Criminal Justice. She is currently chairperson of the University Research Ethics Board. Outside UCC, Ursula has been Chairperson of the Irish Penal Reform Trust (www.iprt.ie) since 2007 and is a founder member of the Irish Youth Justice Alliance. She works closely with a range of children's and human rights organisations and agencies in Cork, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Europe