Critical Perspectives on Human Rights and Disability Law - Hardcover

Marcia H. Rioux; Lee Ann Basser; Melinda Jones

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004189505 ISBN 13: 9789004189508

Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff, 2011

Synopsis

This book examines the changing relationship between disability and the law, addressing the intersection of human rights principles, human rights law, domestic law and the experience of people with disabilities. Drawn from the global experience of scholars and activists in a number of jurisdictions and legal systems, the core human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion and participation are analyzed within a framework of critical disability legal scholarship.

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About the Author

The editors are legal and disability studies scholars who have used both individual experience with disability and contemporary disability theory to address the systemic nature of disability discrimination in law and judicial decision making. The outcomes and processes which promote the human rights principles of dignity, equality and inclusion in practice are explored through their work. Marcia Rioux is a Professor in the School of Health Policy and Management; in the MA and PhD (Critical Disability Studies) and in the M.A./PhD in Health Policy and Equity at York University, Toronto. She is also the Director of the York University Institute of Health Research. She has published and consulted widely on disability, human rights, disability rights monitoring, and disability policy and law issues both nationally and internationally. Lee Ann Basser is an Associate Professor in the School of Law at La Trobe University in Australia. She has researched and written extensively in the areas of Disability Law & Policy, Family Law and Childrens Rights as well as Health Law. She has particular expertise in comparative disability discrimination law and is internationally acclaimed in the area of education rights for children with disabilities. Melinda Jones, a former Director of the Australian Human Rights Centre at the University of New South Wales, is an independent researcher and human rights lawyer. She has written extensively on human rights, particularly in the areas of disability, gender and race as well as being one of the authors of a key text on Australian Administrative Law.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004189505
• ISBN 13: 9789004189508
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 568