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Prof Jane Fortin

Post:Emeritus Professor (Law)
Location:FRISTON BUILDING
Email:Jane.Fortin@sussex.ac.uk
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Biography

  • Date of Appointment : August 2007


Previous appointments
Professor of Law at King's College London 2002


Current External Activities

  • Co-editor (and co-founder) of the Child and Family Law Quarterly
  • Consultant to (and co-founder) the Child Studies Postgraduate Programme at King's College London
  • Member of NYAS professional advisory group


Recent conference papers and speaking engagements

  • 2008 Speaker and panellist at the 'Don't Forget the Children' conference, organised by BHIVA/CHIVA/BASHH. 
  •  2008 Guest presenter of the Allan Levy Memorial Lecture. 
  • 2010 Panellist at a meeting of the Family Law Bar Association, Guildford University.  
  • 2010 Participant at  the Nuffield Council on Bioethics' annual 'Forward Look' seminar.  
  • 2010 Speech at the House of Lords at the ACE 50th Anniversary Celebration Event.
  • 2010 'Children's civil rights in schools' - unpublished paper presented at the CRAE annual conference.  
  • 2010   Chair, Human Rights Lawyers Association, Symposium on Children’s privacy. 
  • 2011 Chair, a Children’s Rights Association for England (CRAE) Working Party on Children in the family and juvenile justice. 
  • 2013 'Taking a longer view of contact' - unpublished paper presented at the Child Studies conference at Kings College London.