Profile
Dr Sonja Grover is a Professor with the Faculty of Education, Lakehead University. She is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Human Rights. Dr Grover has published extensively (books and articles) on child human rights and various aspects of international criminal, human rights and humanitarian law.
Research
Publications
Selected examples :
Grover, Sonja C. (2025) Judicial Oppression of Child Rights in Democratic States and by International Human Rights Bodies (Springer Publishing)
Grover, S., Wall, J., Chen, R. (2023) The Legal Case for Children's Right to Vote in the United States International Journal of Children's Rights Vol. 31 791-810
Grover, S. (2023) The Court's Role in Upholding Inter-Generational Obligations Respecting the Child's Right to Truth Juliana v the United States as a Case in Point 2022 The Global Yearbook on Law and Jurisprudence
Grover, S.C. (2021)The Persecution of Children as a Crime Against Humanity:The Case for the Prosecution (Springer Publishers)
Grover, S. (2018) Child Refugee Asylum as a Basic Human Right:Selected Case Law on State Resistance (NY: Springer Publishing)
Grover, S. (2018) Rights Education and Children's Collective Self-Advocacy through Public Interest Litigation Human Rights Education Review Vol. 1(1), 64-83.
Grover, S. (2018) Human Dignity as the Foundation for the Democratic Rule of Law: JC Hernandez v J Mensa Jr. 582 U.S. _(2017) as an Illustrative Case. In Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo (Ed.) Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Oxford University Press, 2017), pp 245-261
Grover, S. (2015) Children defending their human rights under the CRC communication procedure: On strengthening the Convention on the Rights of the Child complaint mechanism (Berlin: Springer Publishers)
Grover, S. (2014). The Torture of Children During Armed Conflicts: The ICC Failure to Prosecute and the Negation of Children’s Human Dignity (Berlin: Springer Publishers)
Grover, S. (2013). Humanity’s Children: ICC Jurisprudence and the Failure to Address the Genocidal Forcible Transfer of Children (Berlin: Springer Publishing)
Grover, S. (2013). Child Soldiers as Victims of ‘Genocidal Forcible Transfer’: Darfur and Syria as Case Examples. International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 17(3), 411-427.
Grover, S. C. (2012). Child soldier victims of genocidal forcible transfer: Exonerating child soldiers charged with grave conflict-related international crimes (New York: Springer Publishing)
Grover, S.C. (2011) Schoolchildren as Propaganda Tools in the War on Terror: Violating the Rights of Afghani Children under International Law (Berlin:Springer Publishing)
Grover, S.C. (2011) Young People's Human Rights and the Politics of Voting Age, Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice Series (Berlin: Springer Publishing)