ABSTRACT
Law, however, as linked to human rights agendas since the Declaration of Human Rights, is serving to protect children from abusive practices such as forced child labour. Increasingly, education law is a tool of nations to meet their national goals of market place competition success: manipulating education, by law, to capture 'skills' development and create a work-ready populace. In a neoliberal age, where the law is being increasingly used for capitalist ends, such as marketisation of school provision, education is not immune. It is possible to say that education and the law should only mix for the sake of ensuring protection, equality and justice for all. Furthermore, education could be said to claim consistency of form and manners of practice in ways similar to the claims of Law, as Lacan identified it.
