Chapters

'Political and Social Philosophy' in N. Bunnin and E.James (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996): 257 - 289. Revised version in Second edition, 2003.

‘Can child abuse be defined?’ in M. King (ed.), Moral Agendas for Children’s Welfare (London: Routledge, 1999): 74-89

‘The Ethical Status of Nationality,’ in D.M. Clarke and C. Jones (eds.) The Rights of Nations: Nations and Nationalism in a Changing World (Cork: Cork University Press, 1999): 145-166

‘The Mens Rea of Rape: Reasonableness and Culpable Mistakes,’ in K. Burgess-Jackson (ed.) A Most Detestable Crime: New Philosophical Essays on Rape (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999): 213-229

'Nationalism and political theory' in N. O'Sullivan (ed.) Political Theory in Transition (London: Routledge,  2000) : 155 - 171.

'Justice' in G. de Stexhe et al. (eds.) Foundations of Professional Ethics, European Professional Ethics Series, Brussels: European Union and European Ethics Network, 2000): 147- 158.

‘Family Law (First Annex’ in Johann Gottlieb Fichte Grundlage des Naturrechts, Herausgegeben von Jean-Christophe Merle (Berlin: Akademie Verklag, 2001): 187-196

‘Children, Multiculturalism, and Education,’ in D. Archard and C. Macleod (eds.) The Moral and Political Status of Children (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002): 142-159

‘Children’ in Hugh LaFollette (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003): 91-111.

‘Sex Education,’ in R. Curran (ed.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Education (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003): 540-547

‘Citizenship Education and Multiculturalism,’ in A. Lockyer, B. Crick and J. Annette (eds.) Education for Democratic Citizenship: Issues of Theory and Practice (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003): 89-102

‘Welfare Rights as Human Rights and the Duties of Organisations’, in T. Campbell and S. Miller (eds.) Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations (Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004): 45-59.

‘The Value of Privacy,’ in A. Duff, E. Claes and S. Gutwirth (eds.), Privacy and the Criminal Law (Antwerpen-Oxford: Intersentia, 2006): 13-31.

‘Flirting’ in A. Soble (ed.) Sex from  Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia (London: Greenwood Press, 2006) Volume 1: 357-361

‘Rape’ in A. Soble (ed.) Sex from  Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia (London: Greenwood Press, 2006) Volume 2: 901-911

‘Children’s Consent to Medical Treatment,’ in R. Ashcroft, A. Dawson, H. Draper and J. McMillan (eds.) Principles of Health Care Ethics, 2nd Edition (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2007): 311-317

‘Children’s Rights and Juvenile Justice,’ in M. Hill, A. Lockyer and F. Stone (eds.), Youth Justice and Child Protection (London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kinglsey Publishers, 2007): 250-265.

‘Criminalising the Use of Trafficked Prostitutes: Some Philosophical Issues,’ in Vanessa Munro (ed.) Demanding Sex? Critical reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008): 149-162

‘Every Child’s Rights Matter,’ in K. Broadhurst, C. Grover and J. Jamieson (eds.) Critical Perspectives on Safeguarding Children (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009): 39-54

‘The Obligations and Responsibilities of Parenthood,’ in D. Archard and D. Benatar (eds.) Bearing and Rearing: The Ethics of Procreation and Parenthood (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 103-127

‘Children’s Rights,’ in T. Cushman (ed.) Handbook of Human Rights (London: Routledge, 2012): 324-333

‘Marriage, Sex, and the Family,’ in G. Gaus and F. D’Agostino (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2013): 744-754

‘Criminalizing medical negligence,’ in A. Alghrani, R. Bennett and S. Ost (eds.) Bioethics, Medicine and the Criminal Law, Volume 1 ‘The Criminal Law and Bioethical Conflict: Walking the Tightrope’ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013): 236-250.

‘Applied Ethics,’ (with K. Lippert-Rasmussen) in H. LaFollette (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013): 320-335

‘Children’s Rights,’ in H. LaFollette (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013): 756-764

‘Nationalism and Patriotism,’ in H. LaFollette (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013): 3499-3509

‘Children, Adults, Autonomy and Well-Being,’ in C. Macleod and A. Bagattini (eds.) Children’s Well-Being (Dordrehct: Springer, 2014): 1-14

‘Procreating,’ in S. Luper (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014): 231-242

'Children's Rights' The Stanford  Encyclopedia of Philosophy [http://plato.stanford.edu]

‘Family and Family Law: Norms and Concepts’, in Lucinda Ferguson and Elizabeth Brake (eds.) Philosophical Foundations of Children's and Family Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)

‘The Methodology of Applied Philosophy,’ in K. Lippert-Rasmussen, K. Brownlee and D. Coady (eds.) Companion to Applied Philosophy (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018))

‘Sexual Consent’ in P. Schaber (ed.) Routledge Handbook on the Ethics of Consent (London: Routledge, 2018)

‘The Age of Consent,’ in G. Dalder, A. Gheaus, and J. de Wispelaere (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Childhood (London: Routledge, 2018)

‘Regulating Responsible Reproduction,’ in Catherine Stanton, Sarah Devaney, Anne-Maree Farrell and Alexandra Mullock (eds.) Pioneering Healthcare: Essays in Honour of Margaret Brazier (London: Taylor & Francis, 2015): 223-230

‘Respecting Age: Discrimination against the young and the old,’ in Karl Harald Søvig & Marit Skivenes (eds.) Child Rights and International Discrimination Law: Implementing Article 2 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (London: Routledge, 2019)