Report
Human Rights and Relational Justice:Mapping established rights to five operational principles for Australian family systems
Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Vol.18 August 2026
Elsevier
2026
Abstract
Relational Justice is best understood as a framework for implementing established rights to family life, safety, identity, participation, equality, fair process, and effective and accountable state action. The framework is not a claim to five new, independently enforceable human rights. Family relationship ruptures, especially ruptures in parent-child relationships arising from parental separation and divorce, are the context that tests Australian public institutions' implementation of human rights for children, parents and families. Central proposition: When public institutions exercise power over children and family relationships, they must consider safety and relational continuity together. They should protect children and adults from established or credibly imminent harm while avoiding unnecessary rupture of safe and significant relationships. Any restrictive intervention should be evidence-informed, necessary, proportionate, minimally disruptive, time-limited and reviewable, with identifiable responsibility for its relational consequences.
Details
- Title
- Human Rights and Relational Justice:Mapping established rights to five operational principles for Australian family systems
- Authors
- Stan Korosi - University of the Sunshine Coast
- Publication details
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Vol.18 August 2026
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.7326598
- ISSN
- 1556-5068
- Copyright note
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991251598202621
- Output Type
- Report
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