Personal rights of children in the subject of constitutional and legal regulation

About the authors:

Elena G. Komissarova, Dr. Sci. (Jur.), Professor, Department of Civil Law Disciplines, University of Tyumen; Professor, Department of Civil Law, Perm State National Research University; e.g.komissarova@utmn.ru; ORCID: 0000-0003-4257-5673

Tatyana V. Krasnova, Cand. Sci. (Jur.), Associate Professor, Department of Civil Law Disciplines, University of Tyumen; t.v.krasnova@utmn.ru; ORCID: 0000-0002-3375-7443

Abstract:

The Russian scientific potential in promoting children’s rights is still largely limited by the interpretation of such a normative and theoretical construction as “protection of children’s rights”. The habitualness of such provision, however, does not imply that the theoretical interpretation of constitutional norms and of special legislation on the rights of the child excludes the positive regulatory aspect of the awareness of such rights. So far, little has been done in this field. In an effort to make their contribution to the creation of a harmonious theoretical concept covering the entire normative palette of children’s rights, including the personal non-property rights of the child, based on the theory of constitutional culture, the authors turn to the right of the child to know his/her origin, which is not named in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Regarding the research methodology, such specific methods of scientific knowledge as intersectoral analysis, method of comparative law analysis, formal legal and logical methods, method of scientific generalization were used. The following theoretical conclusions are formulated in the article: the theory of children’s rights in the perspective of its constitutional development requires doctrinal support in the form of informal interdisciplinary research at the intersection of constitutional and family law; The mechanical references to constitutional norms should be replaced by a scientific understanding that constitutional provisions relating to human rights in general and the rights of the child in particular cannot be taken for granted by the doctrine, at least they need doctrinal support in the form of creating a harmonious theory of children’s rights.

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