The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in Wales - Jane Williams (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013)
Extracts from pre-publication review:'Unusually in my experience, for a book of essays it is a collection that can be read from cover to cover rather than dipped into for specific purposes. It has the coherence of a single authored book, with the diversity of an edited collection. It would appear that the contributors were given a clear mandate and (unusually) they stuck to it.''This collection will be of keen interest to legal researchers and perhaps a limited appeal to practitioners within Wales. However, it has the potential to go further and no doubt this is the intention of the editor and the Press. The wide range of backgrounds of the contributors gives the collection a strong multi-disciplinary persona. I am sure that within social work, social policy, politics, government, criminology, and the third sector there will be many who will consider buying this collection.''... this is a study of a highly significant development within Wales post devolution. One of the many exciting things about devolution and the idea of the four nations is that each can learn from the other. We have seen this with the Children’s Commission and the Older People’s Commissioner. The collection is an excellent case study of a Welsh initiative.''It also breaks new ground in relation to the working of devolution in Wales. As we move away from focussing solely on the mechanics of devolution and towards the way in which law and policy are made, the collection provides a case study of the workings of devolution in a substantive area of law.'