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

Gilles Abel - Scientific collaborator and philosopher

Aline Bodson - Doctoral student

Emma Bourcelet - Assistant and doctoral student

Manon Brulard -. Researcher

Aurélie Cassiers - Lecturer

Céline Derclaye - Assistant and family mediator

Aurore François - Visiting professor

Marie Goffaux - Scientific collaborator, lawyer at the Namur Bar

Emilie Hermans - Doctoral student

Pauline Mailleux - Assistant

Michaël Mallien - Visiting lecturer, lawyer at the Brussels Bar

Bee Marique - Didactic collaborator, lawyer and family mediator at the Dinant Bar

François-Xavier Polis - Scientific collaborator, adolescent psychiatrist, director of Athanor

Anne-Catherine Rasson - Scientific contributor

Mathieu Rolain- Didactic contributor and lecturer

Agathe Willaume - Scientific contributor, director of SMAJ