Rachel Sloth-Nielsen
DPhil Law
Biography
My research focuses on international children's rights law. My DPhil thesis examines the child's right to cultural identity under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. I have further contributed to a Commentary on the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (forthcoming), and conducted research on various aspects of children's access to justice, including in the informal and customary justice system.
I have taught family law and children's rights at UCL and Oxford Brooke's University, as well as Tort Law at St Anne's College, Oxford. I have assisted on a number of research projects, including on the Child's Rights to Play.
Publications
Sloth-Nielsen R, ‘Failure to recognise a third gender option: unfair discrimination or justified limitation?’ (2021) 25 Law Democracy & Development 90
Sloth-Nielsen R, ‘September v. Subramoney and its implications for transgender persons in South Africa’ (2021) 29(2) African Journal of International and Comparative Law 325
SlothNielsen J and Sloth-Nielsen R, ‘Mothers and others: transgender birth, birth registration and the rights of the child, with a focus on the United Kingdom and South Africa’ (2020) 20(4) International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 203
Sloth-Nielsen R, ‘Gender normalisation surgery and the best interest of the child in South Africa’ [2018] Stellenbosch Law Review
SLOTH-NIELSEN R and Sloth-Nielsen J, ‘Chapter 32 - Article 31 Responsibilities of the child’ in J Sloth-Nielsen, E Fokala and G Odongo (eds.), The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A Commentary (Pretoria University Law Press 2024)
SLOTH-NIELSEN R, ‘Chapter 7 - Article 6 Name and nationality’ in J Sloth-Nielsen, E Fokala and G Odongo (eds.), The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: A Commentary (Pretoria University Law Press 2024)
SLOTH-NIELSEN R, ‘Chapter 29 - Article 28 Drug abuse’ in J Sloth-Nielsen, E Fokala and G Odongo (eds.), The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child: a commentary (Pretoria University Law Press 2024)