Researchers at the Unit study, among other things: children's rights protection systems; children's vulnerability; children's best interests; children's right to autonomy and participation; children's procedural status; children's rights in the context of youth welfare and youth protection: the rights of the child in parentage and adoption law; the rights of the migrant child; the right of the child to a non-violent education; the rights of the child in the digital environment; the rights of intersex children; the rights of transgender children.

The Unit's activities are manifold: promotion of doctoral theses and research projects; teaching and training (intervention in the Master de spécialisation interuniversitaire en approche interdisciplinaire des droits de l'enfant, the Certificat en approche interdisciplinaire des droits l'enfant, the Certificat en accompagnement de l'accrochage scolaire et social and the Certificat en approche multidisciplinaire des maltraitances infanto-juvéniles) ; organization and participation in colloquia, conferences, seminars in Belgium and abroad; publication of individual and collective works, articles, commentaries and proceedings; consultancy activities for public or private bodies; links with the associative world (Service Learning); collaboration with universities abroad.

List of members

Géraldine Mathieu, professor and director of the Unit

Aline Bodson, doctoral student

Emma Bourcelet, assistant

Aurélie Cassiers, maître de conférences

Céline Derclaye, assistant

Marie Goffaux, researcher

Émilie Hermans, doctoral student

Pauline Mailleux, assistant and researcher

Michaël Mallien, visiting lecturer and lawyer at the Brussels Bar

Bee Marique, teaching assistant and lawyer at the Dinant Bar

Anne-Catherine Rasson, doctoral student and lecturer

Mathieu Rolain, teaching assistant and lecturer