QUB Human Rights Centre Seminar Series

"Child-Taking Justice and Forced Residential-Schooling of Indigenous Peoples"

Prof. Diane Marie Amann (University of Georgia School of Law)

Diane Marie Amann is Regents' Professor of International Law and holds the Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law at the University of Georgia School of Law.

Child-taking – occurring when a state or similar power takes a child and then endeavors to erase, alter, or remake that child’s identity – is a global wrong that often eludes redress. This is surely true of the forcible placements of Indigenous children into assimilationist boarding schools, a form of child-taking that prevailed in many places, many of them onetime British colonies, from the 1700s till the 1990s. This talk looks at paths to accountability presented not only by international child law, but also by national and community processes in countries like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. New developments in the US Executive Branch and Supreme Court add a layer of comparative constitutional analysis.

Friday 15 November at 12:30pm in The Moot Court (MST.02.006)