Good Law | Bad Law

Children in uniform?   Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast, Good Law | Bad Law, is joined by Mark A. Drumbl, a Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University and the co-author of a recently published research handbook on child soldiering, to discuss the international problem of children associated with armed groups and/or forces.   An expert in international criminal law, Mark has spent the majority of his career contemplating the complexities surrounding this issue. In his recent works, he hopes to help people reconsider their perspectives of child soldiers – arguing the inherently nuanced nature of today’s topic and the importance of changing our mindset to better appreciate its many challenges and wide-ranging implications. Mark believes that child soldiers remain poorly understood and inadequately protected, despite the considerable media and policy attention they have received. His Research Handbook addresses the troubling gap he and other scholars, prof