Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law

ISBN-13: 9781107141421 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 270 str.

Anna Arstein-Kerslake

Opis

This book provides a ground-breaking discussion of the human right to make decisions in our own lives.

Spis treści

1. Theoretical and historical foundations of the right to equal recognition before the law; 2. The meaning of the right: interpreting Article 12 of the CRPD; 3. The significance of Article 12 of the CRPD: legal capacity as legal personhood and the importance of autonomy; 4. Theoretical tensions in Article 12 of the CRPD: autonomy versus paternalism and liberty versus social support; 5. Denying legal capacity to people with cognitive disability; 6. Case law and the right to legal capacity; 7. Right to legal capacity in all aspects of life; 8. The nature of the support paradigm for people with cognitive disabilities; 9. Good practice in supports for the exercise of legal capacity; 10. Future directions in research and the pragmatics of change; Bibliography; Index.