Great news: I got an email saying that reviewers are willing to publish my article (“(why) should children have rights? A philosophical perspective”) in the upcoming book on 25 years Convention on the Rights of the Child!
Or at least, I still have to rewrite it a little – I am not completely up to date on academic conventions but I think it generally means that my article was accepted. This makes me especially happy since the academic tradition on children’s rights often does not include philosophy. Besides, in the article I argued that technically children do not have rights and that they should rather be argued to possess “legal privileges”. As one reviewer wrote in his/her comment on my article: “it will most likely trigger some discussion and we should not refuse an article because we don’t agree with the line of thinking”.
The book will be published in 2016 by Brill Nijhoff Publishers, edited by Prof T. Liefaard and Prof. J. Sloth-Nielsen.
