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Disability Law and Policy: An Analysis of the UN Convention

Disability Law and Policy: An Analysis of the UN Convention

Author: Charles O’Mahony; Gerard Quinn
Publisher: Clarus Press
ISBN: 9781905536900
Published In: March 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: Ireland ? Disclaimer:
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Disability Law and Policy: An Analysis of the UN Convention is a new book which undertakes a multidisciplinary examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The rights-based perspective on disability is a relatively new lens through which disability law and policy is considered. This is despite the fact that persons with disabilities are often described as the world’s largest minority.

There are approximately 1 billion persons with disabilities in the world (15 percent of the world’s population). This book is an edited volume of essays that undertakes a multidisciplinary examination of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

Part 1 of the edited collection focuses ondisability and intersectionality; part 2 addresses the on going debate about the meaning of Article 12 the right to equal recognition before the law. The chapters contained in part 3 go on to address the emerging discourse on the right to liberty as contained in Article 14 of the CRPD and the barriers facing persons with mental health problems.

Part 4 of the collection examines the right to live independently and to be included in the community. The themes of the right to inclusive education and employment for persons with disabilities are explored in parts 5 and 6 of the collection. The final part of the book part 7 examines how the CRPD is being implemented regionally and in a number of jurisdictions.

Disability Law and Policy: An Analysis of the UN Convention has evolved from an event entitled Global PhD and Researchers Colloquium on Disability Law and Policy organised by the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI Galway. The Colloquium was organised in conjunction with the Burton Blatt Institute, University of Syracuse and the University of Haifa, Israel.

Part 1: Disability & Intersectionality

Gender, Disability and Access to Justice: An

Intersectional Exploration of Article 13

Convention on the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities, Eilionóir Flynn

Ideas for the Construction of a Human Rights

Model for Children, with or Without Disabilities,

Ignacio Campoy Cervera

Raising awareness about awareness-Insights

from the feminist movement on interpreting

Article 8 of the UN Convention on the Rights of

Persons with Disabilities Barbara Phillips,

Nicole Emmenegger, Bruno Trezzini and Mary

Keogh

Disability, Gender and Development, Mary

Keogh

Are we Right or are we Right?: ‘Right

Approach’ in the Advocacy Work of

Organisation of Persons with Disabilities,

Kumpuvuori, Jukka and Virtanen, Riku

Part 2: Right to Legal Capacity

Legal Capacity and Supported DecisionMaking:

Respecting Rights and Empowering

People, Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights

of Persons with Disabilities and the European

Convention on Human Rights, Mary Keys

Legal Capacity: Alternatives to Functional

Capacity, Tina Minkowitz

Supported Decision-Making Innovations: The

Canadian Experience, Lana Kerzner

The CRPD and Legal Capacity Reform in

Hungary: Compromise of What? János FialaButora

Unfulfilled Dream about Moving from Civil

Death to Visible Citizens: Legal Capacity Law

Reform in Hungary, Sándor Gurbai

Part 3: Mental Health Law and Disability

Article 14 of the UN Convention on the Rights

of Persons with Disabilities in light of Article 5

of the European Convention on Human Rights:

The Challenge for Council of Europe Member

States regarding the Involuntary Detention of

Persons with Mental Disabilities, Suzanne

Doyle

Mental Health Law: A Paradigm for its

Dissolution, Tina Minkowitz

‘New’ Rights for Mental Health Laws? The

Right to the Enjoyment of the Highest

Attainable Standard of Health and the Rights of

Carers, Bernadette McSherry

Advance Directives: Supporting Legal Capacity

in Mental Health Care, Fiona Morrissey

The CRPD and Human Rights Based

Approaches: A Magic Wand for Inclusion? Liz

Brosnan

The CRPD and the Fusion of Mental Health

and Legal Capacity Legislation, Charles

O’Mahony & Ciara Hackett

The Implications of the United Nations

Convention in the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities on Criminal Responsibility, Charles

O’Mahony

Part 4: The Right to Independent Living

Independent Living for Persons with Disabilities

in Kenya: Charting the Way Forward, Elizabeth

Kamundia

Contradiction in Terms? The UK, socioeconomic

rights and Article 19 CRPD, Tabitha

Collingbourne

Self-Determining Options: Comparative

Perspectives in Independent Living Law &

Policy, Andrew Power

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons

with Disabilities: Exploring the Synergy

Between Article 12 legal capacity) & Article 19

(independent living), Sinead O’Donnell &

Charles O’Mahony

Part 5: The Right to Inclusive Education

The Right to Education: Article 24 of the CRPD,

Andrea Broderick & Shivaun Quinlivan

Inclusive Education: Moving Beyond Ideology

and Restrictive Theoretical Perspectives, Joyce

Mortimer

Reconciling Sameness and Difference in

Disability Rights Ideology: The Case of Student

Identity, Bronagh Byrne

African Perspectives on Article 24 of the United

Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons

with Disabilities, Tsitsi Chataika

The European Court of Human Rights and the

Right to Inclusive Education, Joyce Mortimer

Part 6: Employment and Persons with Disabilities

Reasonable Accommodation in the Convention

on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and

Non-Discrimination in Employment: Rising to

the Challenges? Anna Lawson

The CRPD and the Genuie Occupational

Requirement in Employment Law, Olivia Smith

Genetic Discrimination in Employment: The

Relevance of the United Nations Convention on

the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Aisling

de Paor

 Disability, EU law and the CRPD: A New

Dawn? Claire Bruton and Shivaun Quinlivan

 Disability Quota Systems in Public Service

Employment, Positive Discrimination and

Article 27 of the CRPD, Charlotte May-Simera

& Elizabeth Kamundia

Part 7: Comparative and Regional Perspectives

Human Rights and Disability Reinterpreting

Disability within the OAS in Light of the CRPD,

Francisco J Bariffi

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with

Disabilities and the European Union, David

Hosking

Human Rights and Persons with Disabilities in

Nigeria: Beyond Policy Formulation, Omolara

Funmilola Akinpelu

Of Rights and Wrongs: The National Disability

Strategy in Portugal. Paula Campos Pinto

Article 33 of the CRPD: Its Potential for

Realising the Human Rights of Persons with

Disabilities, Meredith Raley.

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