Let Words Be with You!
This section contains analyses of legislation and case law on Family Law, protection of child’s rights and justice for underaged crime perpetrators, as well as researches of the phenomena related to child development, crime-related risk factors which influence it, family relations and comparative legal researches of institutional models for child protections.
Iva Pushkarova, Marriage in Contemporary Legal Systems: Legal Concepts and Marriage, Family and Sexual Orientation Rights, JDF, 21. November 2011. The article briefly outlines the classic (traditional) and modern concept of marriage, the social processes and attitudes which define them and impact their evolution, as well as the emerging new institutes of Family Law such as quasi-marriage cohabitations. More specifically, it anlyses the issues of the legal foundation and social efects of the automatic expansion of the legal consequences of the traditional marriage over same sex cohabitations (In Bulgarian).
The research ‘Crime-Related and Victim-Related Factors Concerning Children‘ (Soon available in English) was conducted in 2009-2010 within the framework of the Bulgarian Judges Association and Association Spectra projects: ‘Brothers of Gavrosh before Themis: Justice to the Best Interest of the Child’, funded by hte Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria small grants program, and ‘Integral Index for Juvenile Criminality‘, funded by UNICEF-Bulgaria.
The researchers’ and authors’ team were managed by Iva Pushkarova and included also Georegy Petrunov, Kaloyan Charalampiev, Georgy Kirilov, Deana Dimova, Dean Paskalev, Adriana Stoichkova, Nadezhda Malinova. The study was consulted by Ass.Prof. Pavlina Petkova, and Elena Yoncheva and peer-reviewed by Ass.Prof. Nelly Petrova-Dimitrova and Ass. Prof. Vladimir Velinov.
Ivan Igov, ‘Styles of Parental Behaviour (or when fairy-tales go on)”, February 2011 (In Bulgarian).
Ivan Igov, ‘The Difficult Children – What We Do or Do Not Know About Them’, May2011 (In Bulgarian).
Iva Pushkarova, ‘Institutional Protection of Children of Ombudsman Type – Comparative Legal Research of European Children Ombudspersons’, 2008, prepared for the National Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria. What does the specialized children ombudsman look like, what is the social impact of those institutions across Europe and are they appropriate for the Bulgarian environment? (In Bulgarian).