Routledge Handbook of Disability Law and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9780367581572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Peter Blanck; Eilionóir Flynn

Opis

This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of current and emerging research and policy in disability law. The contributors offer a range of jurisdictional and multidisciplinary perspectives. The chapters and commentary consider historical and contemporary, as well as comparative perspectives of disability law. The work is divided into three part

Spis treści

1. Theoretical Underpinnings of Disability Law




Section I





1. The Social Model of Disability: Questions for Law and Legal Scholarship?





Anna Lawson & Mark Priestley





2. Beyond the Welfare State – What Next for the European Social Model?





Bjørn Hvinden





3. A Human Rights Model of Disability





Theresia Degener












2. Ongoing Debates in Disability Law







Section II Introduction





4. Today’s Lesson is on Diversity





Rosemary Kayess & Jennifer Green





5. Equality of Opportunity in Employment? Disability Rights and Active Labour





Market Policies





Lisa Waddington & Mark Priestley & Betul Yalcin





6. Disabled People and Access to Justice: From Disablement to Enablement?





Anna Lawson





7. Hit and Miss: Procedural Accommodations Ensuring the Effective Access of





People with Mental Disabilities to the European Court of Human Rights





Constantin Cojocariu





8. Toward Inclusion: Political and Social Participation of People with Disabilities





Lisa Schur












3. Emerging Fields in Disability Law

Section III Introduction

9. Legal Capacity: A Global Analysis of Reform Trends

Lucy Series, Anna Arstein-Kerslake & Elizabeth Kamundia

10. Back to the Future? Article 19 and the Nordic Experience of Independent Living

and Personal Assistance

Ciara Brennan

11. eQuality: The Right to the Web

Peter Blanck

12. Disability and Ageing: Bridging the Divide? Social Constructions and Human Rights

Eilionòir Flynn

13. Disability and Genetics – New Forms of Discrimination?

Aisling dePaor

14. Inclusive Development Aid

Mary Keogh

15. Disability Family Policy and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of

Persons with Disabilities (CRPD): The Case of Israel

Arie Rimmerman and Michal Soffer

O autorze

Peter Blanck is University Professor and Chairman, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University, USA. He is also Honorary Professor, Centre for Disability Law & Policy, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Blanck is Chairman of the Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC), and President of Raising the Floor (RtF) USA. He has written articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, and received grants to study disability law and policy.

Eilionóir Flynn is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, and Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, National University of Ireland Galway. Her interest in disability law stems from a broader interest in social justice and a recognition of the invisibility of people with disabilities in broader human rights discourse. Her current research interests in this field include legal capacity, disability advocacy and access to justice, and she has published widely in national and international peer reviewed journals on these issues, as well as producing a monograph on the implementation of the CRPD for Cambridge University Press.