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General legislative measures of implementation: individual claims, ‘public officer’s law’ and a case study on the UNCRC in Wales

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The International Journal of Children's Rights, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 224 - 240

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DOI (Published version): 10.1163/157181811X570744

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The article is concerned with integration of the UNCRC within national legal systems and with different approaches to general legislative measures of implementation at different levels of governannce. Whilst the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child rightly attaches importance to justiciability of...

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Published in: The International Journal of Children's Rights
ISSN: 0927-5568 1571-8182
Published: Leiden Brill 2012
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