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The right to legal agency: domination, disability and the protections of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)
Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has created a revolution in legal-capacity law reform. It protects the right to exercise legal agency for people with disabilities with more clarity ...
Recognising legal capacity: commentary and analysis of Article 12 CRPD
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)
This paper aims to summarise the current understanding and literature around Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It provides a brief history of the key terms associated with the ...
Freedom to negotiate: a proposal extricating 'capacity' from 'consent'
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-03-15)
In this paper, we seek to radically reframe the legal construct of consent from a disability perspective. Drawing on feminist scholarship and human rights standards around free and informed consent', we apply a concept of ...
State intervention in the lives of people with disabilities: the case for a disability-neutral framework
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-02-15)
People with disabilities continue to experience a disproportionately high level of state intervention in their private lives. Many disabled people's organisations have long sought to challenge this discriminatory approach ...