Right of the child to be educated according his own beliefs in the case law of the ECHR

Authors

  • Salvador Pérez Álvarez Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.95.2016.16235

Keywords:

Right to education, freedom of conscience, children, parental rights, moral or religious education, margin of appreciation, ECHR.

Abstract

Abstract
Right to education can be defined as the right to form in and freedom one’s consciousness. Their full enjoyment of this right by infants and children may lead conflicts regarding the right of parents to choose their moral and religious education in the childhood. Controversial situations should be judgment by national authorities according to the margin of appreciation doctrine of the ECHR about the scope and of the Human Rights established in the first Additional Protocol of the Rome Convention.

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Author Biography

Salvador Pérez Álvarez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia.

Priofesor Titular (Acreditado) de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado.

Departamento de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado. Facultad de Derecho UNED. Obispo Trejo, 2. 28040 Madrid.

Published

2016-03-30

How to Cite

Pérez Álvarez, S. (2016). Right of the child to be educated according his own beliefs in the case law of the ECHR. Revista de Derecho Político, 1(95), 149–188. https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.95.2016.16235

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Section

DERECHO PÚBLICO EUROPEO/EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW