Ritual Circumcisions of Minors: Civil and Criminal Perspectives -
SUMMARY: 1. Introduction - 2. Parental authority and the inherent rights of the minor. The best interests of the minor - 2.1. Conflicting rights. The current understanding of parental authority - 2.2. Limits to parental authority. Personality rights - 2.3. The minor’s consent in surgical procedures - 2.4. Circumcision and the best interests of the minor. An act which falls within parental authority? - 3. Criminal responsibility in acts of circumcision for religious motives - 3.1. The criminal approximation to female genital mutilation - 3.2. Circumcision in criminal jurisprudence - 4. Concluding remarks. De iure condendo contributions.
L'autore
Catedrático de Derecho eclesiástico de l’Estado en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Departamento de Derecho Internacional, Eclesiástico y del Estado.
Note
Article peer evaluated.