Best Interests of the Child - Biography 1 | Page 9
Gerison LANSDOWN
Gerison Lansdown was the founder director of the Children’s Rights
Alliance for England, and is now an international children’s rights
consultant and advocate who has published and lectured widely on the
subject of children’s rights. She was actively involved in the drafting of the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, is a visiting scholar at
Queen’s University Belfast, a senior associate of the International Institute
for Child Rights and Development in Victoria, Chair of Child to Child and
a member of the Edito-rial Board of the Canadian Journal of Children’s
Rights.
Karl HANSON
Karl Hanson is Professor in Public Law at the Children’s Rights Unit,
University Institute Kurt Bösch (IUKB) in Sion, Switzerland. He obtained
his doctorate in Law from Ghent University, Belgium, where he worked as
a Researcher at the Children’s Rights Centre and as a Senior Researcher
at the Human Rights Centre. His publications and main research
interests are in the emerging field of interdisciplinary children’s rights
studies and include theorizations on children’s rights and childhood
studies, child labour and working children, juvenile justice and the role
of independent national children’s rights institutions. He is a member
of the Scientific Committee of the National Observatory on Childhood in
Danger (ONED, France) and an editor of the journal Childhood (Sage).
He teaches at the IUKB in the Master interdisciplinaire en droits de
l’enfant (MIDE). He is also the Programme Director of the Master of
Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights (MCR) and a member of the
Directive Committee of the Eur